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Article: did the deacon dodge the drop ? by day he was the model of probity; by night the stuff of nightmare. no wonder brodie still fascinates...
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- October 9, 2004
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Byline: JOHN MACLEOD
HE is still the last word in Edinburgh hypocrisy, the city nob unmasked in outrageous crime - finally hanged, we like to gloat, from gallows he had built himself. It's said he inspired Robert Louis Stevenson to write Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. He's been portrayed on screen by Billy Connolly and there's even a pub named in his honour.
Now comedian Vic Reeves is stepping into the gentleman crook's buckled shoes for a new BBC docu-drama.
But who, really, was Deacon Brodie? And is it just possible that, at the last, he got away with it?
William Brodie was born around 1741, in Edinburgh, and one cannot understand his ...