- Hardcover: 320 pages
- Publisher: Virgin Books; illustrated edition edition (21 Oct 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1852277122
- ISBN-13: 978-1852277123
- Product Dimensions: 27.8 x 23.6 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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The only official book on Scotland Yard, it breaks new ground with previously unpublished images from the Met Museum....
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This is the first ever encyclopedia of Scotland Yard, produced with the full cooperation and approval of the Metropolitan Police and the Home Office. Covering 170 years of history and including more than 250 color and black-and-white photographs, the book shows how the methods and nature of policing have dramatically changed and presents a wealth of information about Scotland Yard in an easily accessible A-Z format. Far from being a dry and dusty reference work, the book is packed with interesting and entertaining stories from the Yard's colorful history.
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I was involved in checking the entries for this book and know the contents well. I have recently worked through it again and am really taken by the photographs - the almost Victorian like classroom in the Police orphanage, the famous WPC chasing the naked urchins by the Serpentine, the cartoon of "John Bull" kicking the Home Secretary down the steps of the Home Office, and so on. My favourite story is about Irene Savidge, a prostitute, who was caught with a customer Sir Leo Money in Hyde Park. Sir Leo was acquitted and there was an enormous fuss and great attacks on the police because the establishment closed ranks and pilloried the individual officers. BUT several years later Sir Leo was caught attacking a respectable woman on a train, and convicted and fined. Which all goes to show that justice catches up with all of us in the end!
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Every True Crime MUST have this book
25 Mar 2001
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Anyone who has ever had an interest in crime this is the book for you. It is written (and written well) by the two foremost respected criminologists in the UK. It covers everything from the early years of crime detection including Jack the Ripper up until modern day times - with ALOT in between. This book should be on every true crime buff's shelf. An amazing reference book and interesting read.
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