Published nine years after her 1933 novelization of the trial and death of Socrates, Rogue's Legacy is Babette Deutsch imagining Fran ois Villon, the notorious French poet known as much for his verse as for his criminality. As Herbert Gorman wrote in the New York Times: "The extant documentation concerning Villon in Rogue's Legacy is brought to such a sharp and living fictional focus that the result for the reader is very much like draining...