STORIES FROM SCOTLAND YARD

Hardback. 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. With gift insc. to fep, browned edges, lightly foxed eps. v.sl. 'shaky'sp., small mk. to fr. cover. Teg, red cloth/gilt lettering, stamped in blind with gilt lettering to sl. dull sp. and fr. cover. Vg.