STORIES FROM SCOTLAND YARD

Hardback. Routledge's Hearth & Home Library. Reminiscences. The author was from the C.I.D, Whitehall, and at one time heavily involved in working undercover to foil a Fenian plot in Liverpool, when he discovered 'a little mountain of casks' disguised as cement, but actually containing bomb apparatus and dynamite. Chapter heading : A Discovery of Infernal Machines. Other chapter headings include : A Breach of Trust; "Dirty" Work; "Fine Art"; A Diamond Robbery' A Peculiar Clue; The Story of a Mole; "Missing"; The Career of a French Youth; A Murder and a Sequel; A Domestic Tragedy; A Sharp Trick; An Intercepted Order: A Fenian Episode; An Aristocratic Wrongdoing; Twice Taken; A Russian Rouble Note Forgery; A Continental Tour. 253pp. 12mo h/back. Lacks fep and half-tp., lightly foxed edges and eps, small, neat name/date insc. to fpd. Teg, red cloth/gilt lettering, stamped in blind with gilt lettering to sunned sp. and fr. cover. Vg.