Great Pearl Heist, The: London's Greatest Thief and Scotland Yard's Hunt for the World's Most Valuable Necklace by Molly Caldwell Crosby
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
This is a tautly-paced fascinating investigation of an international jewel heist on the eve of WWI. Rather like Dr. Crippen's tale, for which there is some character overlap, form Erik Larson's 2006 book Thunderstruck, this is a crime in context, chronological and technological as well as a period pre-cultured pearls when those objects were rarer and more fascinating.
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