STORIES FROM SCOTLAND YARD

Hardback. Routledge's Hearth & Home Library. Reminiscences. The author was from the C.I.D, Whitehall, and at one time heavily involved in working undercover to foil a Fenian plot in Liverpool, when he discovered 'a little mountain of casks' disguised as cement, but actually containing bomb apparatus and dynamite. Chapter heading : A Discovery of Infernal Machines. Other chapter headings include : A Breach of Trust; 'Dirty' Work; 'Fine Art'; A Diamond Robbery' A Peculiar Clue; The Story of a Mole; 'Missing'; The Career of a French Youth; A Murder and a Sequel; A Domestic Tragedy; A Sharp Trick; An Intercepted Order: A Fenian Episode; An Aristocratic Wrongdoing; Twice Taken; A Russian Rouble Note Forgery; A Continental Tour. 253pp. 12mo h/back. brown cloth/gilt lettering, Teg, stamped in blind with bright gilt lettering to fr. cover and sp. Lightly marked covers (see images), lightly browned edges and eps. General light shelf wear, but still a Vg. copy.