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He was a respected cabinetmaker and councillor by day - but Deacon
William Brodie changed into a sinister, thieving monster when
darkness fell on the old city of Edinburgh. Cleverly employing his
respectable reputation to access the richest members of society
before stealing from them as a masked burglar, he used the
resulting illicit money to fund yet another life - with five
children and two mistresses. But Brodie - whose chilling story
inspired Robert Louis Stevenson to create the classic tale of Dr
Jekyll and Mr Hyde about a century later - came fatally unstuck
when an accomplice informed on him. Then neither his ill-gotten
gains nor his plans to cheat the hangman could save him. Rick
Wilson traces the increasingly desperate double life of Brodie,
from his first taste of crime through to his public disgrace and
execution ... hanging on the very gallows he allegedly conceived
himself.
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