STORIES OF FAMOUS DETECTIVES

Hardback. Contents include : The First Real Detective (Vidocq); Scotland Yard's First Detectives; The Founding of the CID; Allan Pinkerton Crosses the Atlantic; The Fight for Fingerprints; Some Famous Manhunters (Mace, John Wilson Murray, Geo. H. Bangs, Wensley, etc.); Ghost Detectives; The Brains Behind Interpol; Historic International Manhunts; Science Aids the Law; Detectives in the Laboratory; The F.B.I Gets the Green Light; Jet Age Detectives + much more. Illus. by Edward Pagram. 208pp. 8vo. h/back. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. Browned edges, v. sl. 'skewed' sp. o/w Nr. Vg.