Anyone who hankers after the good old days should peruse these pages, crammed as they are with the noises, smells and skullduggery of 18th-century London. It was a terrifying place if you happened to be on the wrong side of the tracks, and Lucy Moore's study of the lives and crimes of burglar Jack Sheppard and the gang boss Jonathan Wild - two very different criminals who, nevertheless, brought about each other's downfall - is both engrossing and horrifying.
