REMINISCENCES OF AN EX-DETECTIVE

Hardback. The author was one of the "Big Four" at Scotland Yard. Chapter headings include : The Eltham Common Murder; Breaking Up a Gang of Daring Forgers; The Berkeley Hotel Robbery; The Tracking of the Absconding Solicitor; The Treacle-Plaster Robbery; The Eric Gordon Tombe Murder Mystery; The Brixton Taxicab Murder; The Bogus Count's Love Affairs; The Affair of the Versatile Criminal; The Attempted Forgery of Lord Longsdale's Name; Foiling a Blackmailer's Scheme; How I Brought a Bank Clerk Forger to Book; Doris Keane's Necklace and the Arthur Bourchier Case; How I Ran to Earth a Bogus Clergyman; Tracking the Confidence Tricksters; The Methods of the Scotland Yard Man; The Methods of the Scotland Yard Man contd.; The Psychology of the Criminal; Comparative Murderers of Recent Years (True, Crippen, Mahon, Thorne, Armstrong). With 16 Illus. 256pp. lge. 8vo. h/back. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. V. lightly browned edges, sl. slanted and sunned sp. with patchy fading to back cover (see image)o/w Nr. Vg.