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Simes traces crime literature from the first beggar-books, the German Die Betrugnisse der Gyler (c.
A valuable feature of this book is Simes's lengthy introduction devoted to “The Literature of Crime” and “The Language and Lexicography of Crime.”
The third consists of illustrative quotations (where available) from other texts, mostly from Simes's own files.
The second part is Simes's lexicographical commentary on the material provided by Hartley and Thirty-five, often giving information about the origin of the term, whether it is Australian, whether it is otherwise unrecorded, and so on.
Simes gives a full account of these glossaries, and then turns to the development of dictionaries of underworld slang from the 17th century to the present.