FAMOUS DETECTIVES True Stories of Great Crime Detection

Hardback. SIGNED. 13 true stories of the world's greatest detectives and their most famous cases - a representative handful of those resourceful men whose activities often spearheaded the world's police agencies. Chapter headings include : America's Pioneer - Detective Allan Pinkerton; "A Great Detective" - Homer S. Cummings; Chief of the F.B.I. - J. Edgar Hoover; A Prophesy Come True - Frederick R. Cherrill; Pandora's Box - George W. Cornish; Dope Traffickers' Nemesis - George Hunter White; Great Teigin Mystery - Tamegoro Ikii; War on the Mafia - Joseph Petrosino; Trapping Dynamiters - William J. Burns; A Game of Cat and Mouse - Charles Chenevier; Ohio's Ace Investigator - Don. T. Mellett; Crime Scientist - Edward Oscar Heinrich; Chasing Train Bandits - John J. O'Connell. 264pp. 8vo. h/back. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. PRESENTATION COPY INSC. AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR TO E. SPENCER SHEW. V. lightly browned edges, o/w Vg+ in sunned G+ dw.