CLUES OR LEAVES FROM A CHIEF CONSTABLE'S NOTE BOOK

Hardback. The author was Chief Constable of Edinburgh, and formerly Chief Constable of Leeds, and Chief Inspector of the Detective Department at Manchester and at Glasgow. Twenty-five years of experiences. Chapter headings include : How I Tracked the Silk Stealers; Spaniard versus Jew; A Determined Thief's Career; The Wine Samplers; An Unmitigated Scoundrel; Caught Red-Handed; The Story of a Yellow Painted Box; An Advertising Jeremy Diddler; A Forger's Game of Billiards. 256pp. small 8vo. h/back. Illus. pds. V. lightly foxed edges and eps, black-stamped/red boards with small loss at head of sp. General shelfwear, but still Vg.