Book description
Everyone loves a romantic rogue whose exciting exploits feature a
cheeky disregard for the law, narrow escapes and lots of love
interests. Even at the height of highway robbery activity, it was
thought that the death penalty was too harsh for these wayward
scoundrels and that a more fitting deterrent would be to have them
chained to the very highways they had haunted, reemployed in breaking
stones for the road's surface. This book offers a delightful
assortment of these knights (and ladies) of the road. There is the
ever-courteous Claude du Vall, the epitome of gentlemanliness; the
infamous Katherine Ferrars, who was the inspiration for the film The
Wicked Lady, Dick Turpin, the most famous highwayman of them all; and
lesser-known characters like William Gordon, whose corpse was
subjected to an experiment in reanimation. All these and more in an
entertaining volume that will keep the reader glued to the page
following the mounted thief in his, or her, endless match against the
law and a death by public hanging.
Fiona McDonald is a writer and illustrator with a diverse range
of interests. She has illustrated The Little Book of Genius by Keith
Souter and is writing a history of Britain in the 1920s.
