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Michael Sims, author of The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime, our guest blogger for the week of 4/13

Fri, 04/10/2009

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Michael Sims is our guest blogger during the week of April 13th. If you have any questions for Michael Sims, add a comment to any of his posts.

Here is more information about The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime: Con Artists, Burglars, Rogues, and Scoundrels from the Time of Sherlock Holmes

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An exclusive collection-the first- ever gathering of rogues from the gaslight era.

Collected here for the first time: the best crime fiction from the gaslight era. All the legendary thieves are present--A. J. Raffles, Colonel Clay, Simon Carne, Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford, and the Infallible Godahl--burgling London and Paris, conning New York and Ostend, laughing all the way to the bank. Also featured are stories by distinguished writers from outside the mystery and detective genres, including Sinclair Lewis, Arnold Bennett, and William Hope Hodgson.

About Michael Sims:

Michael Sims is the author most recently of In the Womb: Animals (adapted from two National Geographic Channel documentaries); he is also the author of Apollo's Fire: A Journey through the Extraordinary Wonders of an Ordinary Day, which NPR chose as one of the best science books of 2007; Adam's Navel: A Natural and Cultural History of the Human Form, which was a New York Times Notable Book and a Library Journal Best Science Book; and Darwin's Orchestra: An Almanac of Nature in History and the Arts. For Penguin Classics he also edited The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel and Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Thief, and he is currently editing The Penguin Book of Victorian Women in Crime. He has written for many periodicals, from the Washington Post to New Statesman. Learn more at www.michaelsimsbooks.com.