# Remarkable rogues

Author: Kingston, Charles, 1884-1944

Genre: Category: Crime, Thrillers and Mystery

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/45349

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Remarkable+rogues+Kingston&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

That interest in crime and the criminal is universal no one will deny. In a cruder age it was the custom to organize parties to witness the public execution of notable scoundrels--Monckton Milnes (Lord Houghton) took Thackeray and, I believe, Dickens, to see Courvoisier's--but nowadays we are more decorous, although on occasion several thousand persons can assemble outside a prison and stare at a blank wall during a private hanging inside. Most of us, however, are content to behold crime through the eyes of our favourite journal and it is impossible to complain that the press does not cater fully for us in this respect. That crime retains its fascination for high and low is proved almost...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER XVI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/remarkable-rogues-45349/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/remarkable-rogues-45349/chapters/20/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/remarkable-rogues-45349/chapters/19/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/remarkable-rogues-45349/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/remarkable-rogues-45349/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/remarkable-rogues-45349/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/remarkable-rogues-45349/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/remarkable-rogues-45349/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/remarkable-rogues-45349/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/remarkable-rogues-45349/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/remarkable-rogues-45349/chapters/21/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/remarkable-rogues-45349/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/remarkable-rogues-45349/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/remarkable-rogues-45349/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/remarkable-rogues-45349/chapters/18/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/remarkable-rogues-45349/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/remarkable-rogues-45349/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/remarkable-rogues-45349/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/remarkable-rogues-45349/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/remarkable-rogues-45349/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I A RUSSIAN DELILAH 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/remarkable-rogues-45349/chapters/1/index.md)