Download or read book Traced and tracked or Memoirs of a city detective by James McGovan written by William Crawford Honeyman and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Traced and Tracked Or Memoirs of a City Detective written by James M'Govan and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Traced and Tracked Or Memoirs of a City Detective written by James M'Govan and published by . This book was released on 2024-06-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Traced and Tracked written by James M'Govan and published by . This book was released on 2018-12-06 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book TRACED TRACKED OR MEMOIRS OF written by James M'Govan and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-27 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Traced and Tracked Or Memoirs of a City Detective written by William Crawford Honeyman and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Traced and Tracked Or Memoirs of a City Detective written by James M'Govan and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-06 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Traced and Tracked; Or, Memoirs of a City Detective" by James M'Govan William Crawford Honeyman was a Scottish musician and author who often wrote under the name James M'Govan. In this book, he collects a series of mystery tales which include: A Pedestrian's Plot, Billy's Bite, The Murdered Tailor's Watch, The Street Porter's Son, A Bit Of Tobacco Pipe, The Broken Cairngorm, The Romance Of A Real Cremona, The Spider And The Spider-killer, The Spoilt Photograph, The Stolen Dowry, Mcsweeny And The Magic Jewels, Benjie Blunt's Clever Alibi, Jim Hutson's Knife, The Herring Scales, One Less To Eat, The Captain's Chronometer, The Torn Tartan Shawl, Lift On The Road, The Organ-grinder's Money-bag, The Berwick Burr, The Wrong Umbrella, A White Savage, The Broken Missionary, A Murderer's Mistake, A House-breaker's Wife, Mcsweeny And The Chimney-sweep, The Family Bible, Conscience Money, and A Wolf In Sheep's Clothing.
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Download or read book The Ascent of the Detective written by Haia Shpayer-Makov and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Solved mysteries or Revelations of a city detective by James McGovan written by William Crawford Honeyman and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nineteenth Century Detective Fiction written by LeRoy Lad Panek and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-09-22 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In English and American cultures, detective fiction has a long and illustrious history. Its origins can be traced back to major developments in Anglo-American law, like the concept of circumstantial evidence and the rise of lawyers as heroic figures. Edgar Allen Poe's writings further fueled this cultural phenomenon, with the use of enigmas and conundrums in his detective stories, as well as the hunt-and-chase action of early police detective novels. Poe was only one staple of the genre, with detective fiction contributing to a thriving literary market that later influenced Arthur Conan Doyle's work. This text examines the emergence of short detective fiction in the nineteenth century, as well as the appearance of detectives in Victorian novels. It explores how the genre has captivated readers for centuries, with the chapters providing a framework for a more complete understanding of nineteenth-century detective fiction.
Download or read book Conan Doyle Detective written by Peter Costello and published by C & R Crime. This book was released on 2012-10-25 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating book is based on a remarkable discovery: Sherlock Holmes's methods of deduction were actually those of his creator and used in order to solve real crimes; for Scotland Yard Holmes really did exist in the form of Conan Doyle. Author Peter Costello draws on new research to follow the tracks Conan Doyle left as he entered the real word of Sherlock Holmes; his fictional outpourings were the direct result of their author's hidden career as an amateur detective and criminologist
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Download or read book The McGovan Casebook written by James McGovan and published by Mercat Press Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost twenty years after the publication of Detective James McLevy's memoirs there appeared in Edinburgh a series of volumes purporting to be the autobiographical writings of another policeman from the city, James McGovan. The first was Brought to Bay, or Experiences of a City Detective, which was issued by the Edinburgh Publishing Company in 1878. It was followed by Strange Clues and Solved Mysteries. Encouraged by the success of these books, which by 1884 had sold 25,000 copies and been translated into French and German, the author produced a fourth, Traced and Tracked. Despite their apparent authenticity, which was unquestioned either by the general public or the press of the day, these volumes were all the work of a musician and writer called William Crawford Honeyman. Doubtless inspired by McLevy, Honeyman created a character who can lay claim to being one of the first detectives in crime fiction. James McGovan walks the same Edinburgh beat as his real-life predecessor, shares his dry sense of humour and, like McLevy, never fails to get a conviction. According to present-day crime novelist Alannah Knight: "Honeyman found a gold mine in McLevy's forgotten books. He lent the professional writer's touch, an air of sophisticaton and added literary embellishment". The books will almost certainly have been known to the young Arthur Conan Doyle, who was a student in Edinburgh in the 1870s and published his first Sherlock Holmes story in 1887. Hugely popular in their time—The Scotsman raved: "Nowhere in the English language, so far as we know, are there any detective stories which can equal these for interest and genuine ability", and to the People's Friend he was "the very Dickens of detectives"—the McGovan books are now all but forgotten. American crime writer Ellery Queen was a famous admirer, and ranked the stories alongside the works of Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie as amongst the best in the detective genre.
Download or read book The Big Book of Victorian Mysteries written by Otto Penzler and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edgar Award winner Otto Penzler—“detective fiction’s best editor and champion” (The Washington Post)—returns with a new anthology of exhilarating mysteries, assembling Victorian society's lords and ladies and most miserable miscreants. Behind the velvet curtains of horsedrawn carriages and amid the soft glow of the gaslights are the detectives and bobbies sniffing out the safecrackers and petty purloiners who plague everything from the soot-covered side streets of London to the opulent manors of the countryside. With his latest title in the Big Book series, Otto Penzler is cracking cases and serving up the most thrilling, suspenseful Victorian mysteries. This collection brings together incredible stories from Arthur Conan Doyle, Thomas Hardy, Oscar Wilde, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, and Guy de Maupassant among other legendary writers of the grand era of the British Empire. So brush off your dinner jackets and straighten out your ball gowns for these exciting, glitzy mysteries.
Download or read book Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle written by James Silk Buckingham and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
