"This book traces the growth and decline of those twin brotherhoods of beggars and knaves, which occupied the alarmed attention of Englishmen from the sixteenth

This book is based on the experiences of a dealer in stolen goods (alias 'Sam Goodman'), whose history serves as a model for understanding the role that fences

She was dirty and dusty. Her curly hair had seen neither a comb nor water for months. In one hand she carried a package of cigarettes and in the other a solvent