FOUL DEEDS & SUSPICIOUS DEATHS IN DUBLIN

Tory gangs, madmen, war criminals, frauds, anarchists, duelists, kidnappers, and more scandal-makers throughout four centuries of Irish history.   Dublin is a wonderful, energetic cultural center?the pride of Irish achievements in architecture, arts, and literature. But it is also a city of paradoxes and conflicts?and a long, fascinating history of crime.   Stephen Wade now reveals Dublin?s ?strange eventful history? in this thrilling collection of murderers, thieves, daredevil highwaymen, libelers, seducers, and bloody avengers?from eighteenth-century turncoats to Victorian-era rogues to a twentieth-century parliamentary candidate with a killer past. Amid tales of sensational investigations and infamous courtroom trials, readers will discover the truth behind the disappearance of the Crown Jewels in 1907; the bizarre motives of nineteenth-century serial killer John Delahunt; and the startling charges leveled against Oscar Wilde?s father, a revolutionary doctor embroiled in a felonious and sexual cause célèbre of his own.