POLICE WORK FROM WITHIN With Some Reflections Upon Women, The Law and Lawyers

Hardback. The primary purpose of this volume was to 'enlighten in an entertaining manner the uninformed and the ill-informed as to how our police force is constituted and how it works in the prevention and detection of crime. The information has been obtained from the highest official sources and may be relied upon as being strictly accurate....' Chapter headings include : Preliminary Remarks; The Relative Positions of the Sexes; Marriage and Crime; The Assistant Commissioner (Sir Melville Macnaghten); Some Crimes Discussed; The Executive Head (Supt. Frank Froest); A Member of the "Council of Seven" (Chief-Insp. Elias Bower - "Moat Farm"); Photography and Crime-Investigation; The Science of Finger-Prints; "Reporting"; The Public Prosecutor (Sir Charles W. Matthews); Dr. Scott (Dr. James Scott); An Exhibition of "Exhibits" (the "Black Museum"); Mrs. Pearcey-Charles Peace-Eyraud and Bompard-Unsolved Mysteries; A Kingston Tragedy-The Crime and the Arrest-The Burning of the "Richmond"-Miss Massett-Burglars' Tools; The Case of Canham Read; The Whitechapel Murders ("Jack the Ripper" pp227-245 incl.); The Receiver of Stolen Goods; Solicitors and Crime; History of an Action-At-Law; The Law of Libel; "Chambers"; The City Police. Illus. + Index. 317pp. small 8vo. h/back. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. V.v. lightly browned edges o/w F. Rare