Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1886 classic “Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde” tells the story of a (SPOILER ALERT!) respectable doctor by day who lives out a double life at night. Stevenson may have been inspired by a real 18th century Scotsman, William “Deacon” Brodie, who made cabinets by day – one of which purportedly ended up in the Stevenson family home – and ran a burglary ring in his free time.

For more:
Check out this Atlas article, “The Creepy Cabinet That Inspired Jekyll and Hyde”
As well as the BBC’s “The Real Jekyll and Hyde?” and The National’s “A Parcel of Rogues: The double life of Deacon William Brodie”
More on Robert Louis Stevenson’s penning of “Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde”
And go back to the source: “The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde” and the account of Deacon Brodie’s trial over on Project Gutenberg