An edition of The story of Scotland yard
(1935)
The story of Scotland Yard
by Basil Thomson
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The Story of Scotland Yard
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The Story of Scotland Yard
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Table of Contents
I: The yard at work
The murder of police Constable Gutteridge
II: The need for Scotland Yard
Eighteenth-century conditions: the watchmen
Sir Thomas de Veil and the fieldings
Bow Street experiments
The Cato Street conspiracy
III: The establishment of Scotland Yard
The public opposition
The Duke of Wellington's mistake
The demand for reform of the criminal law
Early years
The institution of a criminal investigation department
The McNaghten case
The salt hill murder
Disturbed years
The Hempstead murder
Burking horses
The revolutions of 1848
Death of Sir Robert Peel
The abolition of transportation
The eventful year of the great exhibition
The Rugeley poisoning and other crimes
The Richmond murder
The first train murder
The road murder
The growth of the C.I.D.
The dynamiters
The siege of Sidney Street
The Crippen case
The trail of the Seddons
The theft of a pearl necklace
The suffragettes
The criminal record office
The case of Adolf Beck
The C.I.D. in wartime
IV: The C.I.D. today
The forged treasury notes
The case of Madame Gerard
The bridges in the bath case, 1915
The police strike
The plot to assassinate Mr. Lloyd George
The flying squad
Fraud in connection with the late Lord Kitchener
The work of Scotland Yard in cases of fraud
The Mandeville case
The case of E.T. Hooley and others
The Bottomley case
The Thompson and Bywaters case
The Fahmy case
The raid on the premises of the Russian trading delegation
The murder of Vivian Messiter (1928)
Coping with new conditions
The existing organization at Scotland Yard
The division of duties
Recruiting
The maintenance of discipline
Complaints by the public
The civil service staff
The police in the divisions
Superintendents
The criminal investigation department.
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"PERHAPS THE BEST WAY to begin the story of Scotland Yard is to explain how the Yard works today; to exhibit it, as it were, in action."
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