LOST LONDON The Memoirs of an East End Detective

Hardback. 1st edn. later issue in the Treasure Libraries Series. The author was an East End detective who figured prominently in the most notorious crime episodes of the previous quarter of a century. Leeson, known as "the man who was shot at Sidney Street", penetrated the haunts of London's worst criminals. He knew them as suspects, prisoners and as condemned men. Includes a chapter on Jack the Ripper + Lenin, Trotsky, Stinie Morrison, the bare-knuckle bruisers of London markets, the Odessian gang leaders, the Anarchists etc., etc. A documentary account of an underworld that was gradually disappearing. With Frontis. and Index. 223pp. 8vo. h/back. Green cloth with patchy white lettering to sp. With previous owner's neat name/date insc. together with small embossed stamp to ffep, lightly browned edges o/w a really nice Vg+ copy of a Jack the Ripper associated title that is now becoming scarce.