Early in his career, the great Scotland Yard detective Robert Fabian pitched himself against a suave and daring cat-burglar. Robert Augustus Delaney was responsible for a one-man crime wave targeting London’s wealthiest homes in the 1920s. His exploits even gained the admiration of the police who were chasing him. But behind the glamorous exterior of the gentleman thief, lay the secrets of a dark past. For Fabian, capturing the elusive thief was an opportunity not just to put a master criminal behind bars, but also to make his own reputation.

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