Newgate Calendar

First published during the 18th century, this text is amongst the earliest examples of lurid crime writing, featuring a cast of full-blooded villains, from the cannibal family of Sawney Beane to the Reverend Dr Dodd, chaplain to the King and a major fraudster.

• Author
• George Theodore Wilkinson

• Format
• paperback

• Publisher
• Wordsworth Editions Ltd

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9781853267741

• Genres
• history

• Release date
• 1997