Secret Service; or, Recollections of a City Detective
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About This Book
A thrilling collection of Andrew Forrester's short works, the same author of the original lady detective stories, about detective work in Victorian England. Forrester's works were published only decades before Sherlock Holme's books, beginning in 1864. This publication contains seventeen short stories, including "Mistaken Identity" and "Matrimonial Espionage". A wonderful rare find for the lover of Victorian and Edwardian Era crime novels.
Chapters (20)
- SECRET SERVICE OR RECOLLECTIONS OF A C I T Y D E T E C T I V E
- CONTENTS.
- SECRET SERVICE OR Recollections of a City Detective
- MY GREAT ELECTIONEERING TRICK.
- MISTAKEN IDENTITY
- AN UNSCRUPULOUS WOMAN.
- THE INCENDIARY GANG
- A RAILWAY ACCIDENT?
- A PATRIOTIC BARBER IN FAULT
- A ROMANCE OF SOCIAL LIFE.
- THE VIRTUE OF AN AMERICAN PASSPORT.
- WHO WAS THE GREATEST CRIMINAL?
- A GRAND RAILWAY “PLANT.”
- AN EPISODE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE.
- THE WORKHOUSE DOCTOR.
- THE MISSING WILL.
- THE DUKE’S MYSTERY
- THE ATTORNEY AND THE SMUGGLER.
- SWINDLING ACCORDING TO ACT OF PARLIAMENT.
- MATRIMONIAL ESPIONAGE.
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