Crooked Talk

'Five Hundred Years of the Language of Crime'. Eleven sections: from swindlers, conmen and frauds in the sixteenth century to incarceration, parole and release; a wonderful guide, rich in metaphor, diminished only by its narrow definition of a criminal.

Publisher: Random House Books. First English edition
Edition: First Edition
Place Published: London
Fine in dustwrapper.


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