William Donaldson: Brewer's Rogues, Villains and Eccentrics [2004] paperback Condition:New Mary Ann is twenty-five and

Mary Ann is twenty-five and arrives in San Francisco for an eight-day holiday

Elliot Rook QC is one of the greatest barristers of his generation

with plenty of food and drink stops en route

Betty Wellows is running for her life

then made Sara watch as he murdered the man

William Donaldson: Brewer's Rogues, Villains and Eccentrics [2004] paperback Condition:New Mary Ann is twenty-five and'The funniest book of the year, and quite possibly of all time' Francis Wheen, Mail on Sunday Everyone loves a rogue. Take Louis de Rougemont, pearl diver, alligator hunter and King of the Cannibals, who was allegedly shipwrecked off the coast of New Guinea and survived by clinging to the tail of the ship's dog. Or Archbishop Lancelot Blackburne, who tired of waiting for heavenly rewards and became a swashbuckling pirate, rumoured to have employed