Adam Value was the Victorian Period’s most notorious thief. He was so sneaky, so devious and so rattling good at his job that he grew to become writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s inspiration for Dr. Moriarity, arch-nemesis of Sherlock Holmes.
Value’s exploits earned him the nickname “The Napoleon of Crime,” a nod to his ceaseless drive to steal something that wasn’t nailed to the ground. (And even when it was, he’d steal it anyway.) Value and an array of ne’er-do-wells have been as progressive as they have been crooked, tunneling their means into financial institution vaults from adjoining constructing basements, organising shape-shifting unlawful playing dens and slipping into new nations and identities when issues obtained too sizzling.
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Value was pursued throughout a number of continents by the Pinkerton detective company (which might someday turn into the Secret Service) and he cemented his standing as one of many best thieves in historical past when he stole the extremely well-known portrait of Georgiana Cavendish, The Duchess of Devonshire, proper off the wall of a London gallery.
Value held onto the pilfered portrait for years, chauffeuring it all over the world within the false backside of a baggage trunk. Some say he was ready for the fitting second to promote it, others imagine he fell in love with the Duchess’s beguiling picture and did not wish to let go.
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Soiled Cash is a brand new podcast collection from Entrepreneur Media telling the tales of legendary scammers, con artists, and barely-legal lowlifes who cease at nothing to bilk their marks of hundreds of thousands. Hosted by Entrepreneur editors Dan Bova and Jon Small, the podcast takes a deep dive into the deviants behind the deeds.
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