Project Gutenberg 2019-05-27 Public domain in the USA. 222 Lyons, Sophie 1848 1924 Burke, Sophie Van Elkan Lyons, Mrs. Why crime does not pay E-text prepared by Martin Pettit and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (https://archive.org) "Why Crime Does Not Pay" by Mrs. Sophie Van Elkan Lyons Burke is a memoir detailing the author's life of crime, written in the early 20th century. The book chronicles the experiences of Sophie Lyons, a notorious criminal known as the "Queen of the Underworld," who began her life of theft at a young age, strictly trained by her criminal stepmother. It explores the consequences of her actions and underscores the central theme that crime ultimately leads to suffering and loss. The opening of the memoir introduces Sophie as a child pickpocket trained to steal from a very young age. It vividly describes her upbringing in a world of crime, where stealing became second nature. Her stepmother instilled in her the belief that stealing was not only acceptable but a skill to be honed, leading to a tumultuous life filled with arrests and the absence of a nurturing environment. Throughout this early narrative, Sophie reflects on her motivations and the misguided notions that led her to embrace a life of crime, setting the stage for her ultimate realization that crime does not pay. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 75.3 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. en Criminals -- Biography HV Text Category: Crime, Thrillers and Mystery Category: Biographies 419615 2025-09-23T14:04:54.519699 text/html 424349 2019-05-27T16:26:25 text/html 1582303 2025-09-23T14:05:00.074724 application/epub+zip 1583601 2025-09-23T14:04:55.462698 application/epub+zip 238189 2025-09-23T14:04:54.979720 application/epub+zip 1709608 2025-09-23T14:05:03.767670 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1673218 2025-09-23T14:04:59.554706 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 329921 2022-09-27T01:27:35.675186 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 385514 2025-09-23T14:04:53.757687 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 385535 2019-05-27T16:24:11 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 385542 2019-05-27T16:24:11 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 19997 2025-09-23T14:05:03.969629 application/rdf+xml 16744 2025-09-23T14:04:55.068673 image/jpeg 2496 2025-09-23T14:04:55.023691 image/jpeg 147929 2019-05-27T16:24:11 application/octet-stream application/zip 1423848 2019-05-27T16:34:47 application/octet-stream application/zip 147909 2019-05-27T16:24:11 application/octet-stream application/zip 1424079 2025-09-23T14:04:54.597664 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia