They're the Forty Elephants, a real gang led by the charismatic Mary Carr (Erin Doherty), who pilfer the prized possessions of the upper classes by the pocketful. "I wanted for a long time to do the ...

In A Thousand Blows, the Forty Elephants are depicted as a rag-tag band of female thieves and criminals. They orchestrate distractions to pickpocket wealthy pedestrians, they storm into and rob ...

Hezekiah meets an array of colourful characters who feel like outsiders just like him, including a group of female thieves known as the Forty Elephants —led by Erin Doherty's Mary Carr— and ...

Carr, born in 1862, was a real woman, known as “the Queen of the Forty Thieves.” She frequently targeted high-end shops with her gang. As Doherty’s Carr tells her thieves in the series, “Anyone can ...