
Full title
Oriental Prisons Prisons and Crime in India, the Andaman Islands, Burmah, China, Japan, Egypt, Turkey
Language
en
Duration
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Series
The History and Romance of Crime
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by Chris Curnow, Wayne Hammond, Sharon Joiner and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
Release date
2017-02-18
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
1838–1908
A soldier, prison official, and prolific storyteller, he turned firsthand experience of military and penal life into fast-moving histories, mysteries, and crime tales. His books helped shape popular Victorian writing about prisons, detectives, and the underworld.
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