499 Wilde Nights and Robber Barons (with Laura Lee)
The History of Literature
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Morris Schwab and the Wild Circle
Laura Lee is the author of Wild Knights and Robert Barons. She says Morris Schwab played a key role in Oscar Wilde's trial, but that wasn't enough for an entire book. He was involved in just about every crime you could imagine, starting with card sharpening, she writes. "He was really a catalyst for bringing some of those, what they call dangerous elements into the wild circle"
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