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050 00 $aHV7914$b.W4 1931a
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049 $aMAIN
100 1 $aWensley, Frederick Porter,$d1865-1949.
245 10 $aForty years of Scotland yard;$bthe record of a lifetime's service in the Criminal investigation department,$cby Frederick Porter Wensley ... with an introduction by George Dilnot ...
260 $aGarden City, N.Y.,$bDoubleday, Doran & Co.,$c1931.
300 $axvii, 312 pages$bincluding frontispiece plates, portraits$c21 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
500 $aIllustrated lining-papers.
500 $aLondon edition (Cassell & company, ltd.) had title: Detective days.
505 0 $aIntroduction -- Preface -- A constable in Whitechapel -- The shank of a button -- William Seaman : murderer -- Sir Melville Macnaghten -- The career of Bertha Weiner -- Murder of a newsagent -- Lee of the C.I.D. -- Here are detectives -- Criminal investigation : theory and practice -- "The last drop" -- Siberian gold -- All gangs are not in Chicago -- The curious affair of Leon Beron -- Stinie Morrison -- A note on criminals -- Women are seldom master minds -- No. 59 Grove Street -- The siege of Sidney Street -- The spider -- Chief Detective Inspector, C.I.D. -- "Blodie Belgium" -- Senior Chief Detective Inspector, C.I.D. -- The machinery of crime detection -- Thompson-Bywaters -- "Publish and be damned" -- Murder in a trunk -- Murder is an art -- Are murderers made or born? -- What the public expects -- The last chapter.
520 $aI tell in this book of some of the experiences of forty years. I have tried to be entirely frank in presenting an unexaggerated picture of the realities of detective life. Apart from any general interest these memoirs may possess, it is my hope that they may afford some instruction and guidance, in not too indigestible a form, to the younger members of my profession. - Preface.
590 $bInternet Archive - 2
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600 10 $aWensley, Frederick Porter,$d1865-1949.
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740 0 $aScotland yard, Forty years of.
776 08 $iOnline version:$aWensley, Frederick Porter, 1865-1949.$tForty years of Scotland yard.$dGarden City, N.Y., Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1931$w(OCoLC)573454628
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