Hardback. 'The stories in this volume are from actual life. Each one is complete in itself, but they supplement one another in illustrating the methods of the police in all countries and all ages. It includes notable cases within the experience of the English, American and French official police....' Chapter headings include : the Face in the Mist (Day); The Mystery of the Rue Houdon (Laurant); The Crippen Case; Myatery of the French Physician (Pommerais); A Modern Jekyll and Hyde (Durrant); The Mystery of the Gold Seal (Mrs. Botkin); The Green Pocket-Book (Voirbo); The Buried Crime (Norkin/Becker); At the Risk of His Life (James McParlan/Molly Maguires); Adventure of the Toy Lantern (Fowler/Millsom) + much more. 222pp. 8vo. h/back. V. lightly foxed, sl. sunned sp. o/w Vg+