1671年春天，一个叫托马斯·布拉德的爱尔兰人出现在伦敦塔门口，穿着英国国教牧师的黑袍。布拉德不是普通罪犯：他当过兵，搞过阴谋，是个逃亡多年的职业冒险家。他的计划听起来像天方夜谭——偷走英格兰的王冠珠宝。要做到这一点，他只需要骗过一个人：七十七岁的珠宝室看守人塔尔博特·爱德华兹。
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The place
Tower of London
布拉德上校盗取王冠珠宝
英国历史上最胆大包天的盗窃——结局荒唐到不可能
1671 AD - Restoration PeriodTower of London
故事寓意
“胆大妄为、巧舌如簧、厚颜无耻有时能攻破最坚固的防线——而正义有时比犯罪本身更荒唐”
人物
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Colonel Thomas Blood - Irish adventurer and mastermindT
Talbot Edwards - Elderly Jewel House keeper, aged 77T
Thomas Blood Junior - The Colonel's son and accompliceR
Robert Perrott - Accomplice who hid the Orb in his breechesR
Richard Halliwell - Accomplice who tried to file the SceptreC
Captain Beckman Edwards - Talbot's son, who raised the alarmK
King Charles II - The monarch who pardoned his own robber来源
Tower of London official records, Gilbert Burnet's "History of My Own Time", State Papers Domestic (Charles II), Historic Royal Palaces research