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Dreadful Deeds and Awful Murders: Scotland Yard’s First Detectives 1829-1878
Joan Lock
Works of: Non-fiction
Drawing extensively on contemporary reports and descriptions in police records, newspapers, journals and Charles Dickens celebrated detective police portraits Joan Lock paints a vivid picture of the almost overwhelming difficulties and considerable triumphs of these first detectives who had to pursue their culprits against a background of severe Press criticism, intense public interest and frequent antagonism from magistrates who felt their power as police chiefs fading fast.
Well illustrated with pictures of police from Commissioner Richard Mayne,, the quaintly top-hated members of the force, the detectives, their quarry, murderers and the scenes of their crimes.
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