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Author: Arthur Fowler Neil Publisher: ISBN: 9781436698061 Category : Languages : en Pages : 304
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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Author: Arthur Fowler Neil Publisher: ISBN: 9781436698061 Category : Languages : en Pages : 304
Book Description
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Author: Joseph Gollomb Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780331028416 Category : Crime and criminals Languages : en Pages : 316
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Excerpt from Scotland Yard Ome day a cold-blooded Izaak Walton will write a treatise on the compleat art of man-hunting. The tracking by society of the men who prey on man is already something of a sport and something of an art - in fiction. In real life it is a crusade, a science, a profession; there is no sporting ethics in it and the police prefer the shortest way to the kill whether it is good sport art or none of these pleasant things. But the quarry has grown clever with science and tech nique. Science plays no favorites and is at the disposal of any one who masters it. Poison serves the criminal as well as the physician. The oxy-acetylene torch will burn through steel as obligingly for the bank burglar as for the steel worker. The Great War, like all other wars, taught criminals new ways of killing. So that the whole fraternity of the under world, from the petty thief who has learned enough to wear gloves when he does his looting to the murderer who uses only vegetable poisons which dissolve and leave no trace in the stomach, all these have taken on new tricks and are adding to them every day. And the hunter has had to keep up with the quarry. The result is that so infinitely complex, delicate and manifold have become the means of weapons of crime as well as those of the hunting down of criminals with radio and X-ray, dicta phone, micro-photography, chemical reagents, psychoanalysis, organization technique, card cataloguing, international police conferences and ten thousand other devices, that the modern detective has come to exercise something of the care of the artist in _choosing weapon and trail in his hunt. But it is still primarily a hunt and each race has its own tracker's tricks. It is interesting to observe, in addition to the fascination of the tricks themselves, how even in hunting down men each race reveals its racial traits. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Haia Shpayer-Makov Publisher: OUP Oxford ISBN: 0191620300 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 444
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The figure of the detective has long excited the imagination of the wider public, and the English police detective has been a special focus of attention in both print and visual media. Yet, while much has been written in the last three decades about the history of uniformed policemen in England, no similar work has focused on police detectives. The Ascent of the Detective redresses this by exploring the diverse and often arcane world of English police detectives during the formative period of their profession, from 1842 until the First World War, with special emphasis on the famed detective branch established at Scotland Yard. The book starts by illuminating the detectives' socioeconomic background, how and why they became detectives, their working conditions, the differences between them and uniformed policemen, and their relations with the wider community. It then goes on to trace the factors that shaped their changing public image, from the embodiment of 'un-English' values to plebeian knights in armour, investigating the complex and symbiotic exchange between detectives and journalists, and analysing their image as it unfolded in the press, in literature, and in their own memoirs.
Author: Arthur Fowler Neil
Author: Arthur Fowler Neil
Author: Arthur Fowler Neil
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Author: Joseph Gollomb
Author: Joseph Gollomb
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