Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- A BEGINNER IN UNIFORM—MEETING A TARTAR
- LITTLE ALF; OR, HOW I BROKE UP A NEST OF THIEVES
- HOW I TRAPPED FOUR CARD-SHARPERS
- QUACKERY EXPOSED
- OH! WHAT A SURPRISE!
- A FEMALE BEGGING IMPOSTOR'S BOAST
- MY BAPTISM OF BASE COINERS
- NEXT-OF-KIN FRAUDS
- A SWINDLER WALKING INTO THE TRAP
- HOW THIEVES ARE MADE
- “DIAMOND SAM” AND HIS CONFEDERATES
- HOW I PUNISHED A WIFE-BEATER
- REGISTRY OFFICE SWINDLES
- A “GHOST” IN A PIANO CASE
- A FIGHT WITH A BURGLAR
- RACECOURSE THIEVES
- STREET BULLIES
- STREET CADGERS
- THE REVEREND QUACK
- BOGUS RAILWAY BONDS
- AMERICAN BANK THIEVES IN ENGLAND
- THE JEW, THE BARRISTER, AND THE SOLICITOR'S CLERK
- THE COUNTRY BUMPKIN AND HIS £200
- LOTTERY FRAUDS ON HORSE RACES
- SELLING STATE SECRETS
- PICTURE PIRATES
- BANK NOTE FORGERS
- BOGUS CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS
- THE CONFIDENCE TRICK
- RINGING THE CHANGES; OR, THE “BUSTLE”
- AN ARMED BURGLAR
- BOGUS SECURITIES
- DIAMOND CUT DIAMOND
- HOW I TRACKED TWO INCENDIARIES
- A SCENE IN COURT
- EMIGRATION EXTRAORDINARY
- MEDICAL CONSPIRACY
- INSURANCE FRAUDS
- MANCHESTER ANARCHISTS AT WORK
- AN ELOQUENT PLEA FOR SHORT SENTENCES
- LIFE INSURANCE FRAUDS
- LONG FIRM FRAUDS
- THE ARREST OF MR. WILLIAM O'BRIEN, M.P., IN MANCHESTER
- FIRST OFFENDERS ACT
- FLOGGING
- TICKET-OF-LEAVE QUESTION
- A SHAM HEIRESS
- A QUEER CUSTOMER
- “FLYING GIBB”
- FRAUDS ON UNEMPLOYED GIRLS
- A BAD CASE OF ARSON
- TRAFFICKING IN PENSION PAPERS
- A CLEVER FORGER
- “SMASHERS,” OR BASE COIN “PITCHERS” OR TENDERERS
- GAMBLING HELLS
- PROSECUTION OF THE ELLESMERE AND PRINCE OF WALES CLUBS
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- A BEGINNER IN UNIFORM—MEETING A TARTAR
- LITTLE ALF; OR, HOW I BROKE UP A NEST OF THIEVES
- HOW I TRAPPED FOUR CARD-SHARPERS
- QUACKERY EXPOSED
- OH! WHAT A SURPRISE!
- A FEMALE BEGGING IMPOSTOR'S BOAST
- MY BAPTISM OF BASE COINERS
- NEXT-OF-KIN FRAUDS
- A SWINDLER WALKING INTO THE TRAP
- HOW THIEVES ARE MADE
- “DIAMOND SAM” AND HIS CONFEDERATES
- HOW I PUNISHED A WIFE-BEATER
- REGISTRY OFFICE SWINDLES
- A “GHOST” IN A PIANO CASE
- A FIGHT WITH A BURGLAR
- RACECOURSE THIEVES
- STREET BULLIES
- STREET CADGERS
- THE REVEREND QUACK
- BOGUS RAILWAY BONDS
- AMERICAN BANK THIEVES IN ENGLAND
- THE JEW, THE BARRISTER, AND THE SOLICITOR'S CLERK
- THE COUNTRY BUMPKIN AND HIS £200
- LOTTERY FRAUDS ON HORSE RACES
- SELLING STATE SECRETS
- PICTURE PIRATES
- BANK NOTE FORGERS
- BOGUS CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS
- THE CONFIDENCE TRICK
- RINGING THE CHANGES; OR, THE “BUSTLE”
- AN ARMED BURGLAR
- BOGUS SECURITIES
- DIAMOND CUT DIAMOND
- HOW I TRACKED TWO INCENDIARIES
- A SCENE IN COURT
- EMIGRATION EXTRAORDINARY
- MEDICAL CONSPIRACY
- INSURANCE FRAUDS
- MANCHESTER ANARCHISTS AT WORK
- AN ELOQUENT PLEA FOR SHORT SENTENCES
- LIFE INSURANCE FRAUDS
- LONG FIRM FRAUDS
- THE ARREST OF MR. WILLIAM O'BRIEN, M.P., IN MANCHESTER
- FIRST OFFENDERS ACT
- FLOGGING
- TICKET-OF-LEAVE QUESTION
- A SHAM HEIRESS
- A QUEER CUSTOMER
- “FLYING GIBB”
- FRAUDS ON UNEMPLOYED GIRLS
- A BAD CASE OF ARSON
- TRAFFICKING IN PENSION PAPERS
- A CLEVER FORGER
- “SMASHERS,” OR BASE COIN “PITCHERS” OR TENDERERS
- GAMBLING HELLS
- PROSECUTION OF THE ELLESMERE AND PRINCE OF WALES CLUBS
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- Twenty-Five Years of Detective Life , pp. 185 - 192Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012First published in: 1895