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_Why Crime does not Pay._ Sophie Lyons. J. S. Ogilvie, New York. pp.
268.
A series of not uninteresting sketches of alleged actual adventures
in crime by one who claims to have been called the “Queen of the Bank
Burglars”. The publishers call her the most remarkable and greatest
criminal of modern times, a thief from the cradle. The burden of the
stories is that crime does not pay. She was associated with a number
of noted bank burglars, among them Ned Lyons, her husband, and George
Bliss, alias George White, who some half dozen years ago published a
strikingly well-written narrative of his own criminal career, entitled
“From Boniface to Bank Burglar”. Mrs. Lyons’ stories are circumstantial
and give detail accounts of daring and often successful burglaries.