Research Catalog

Title

The story of Scotland Yard / Sir Basil Thomson.

Author

Thomson, Basil, 1861-1939.

Publication

New York : Literary Guild, 1936.

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Details

Description

xv, 347 pages, 10 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations; 24 cm

Alternative Title

Scotland Yard

Subject

• Great Britain. Metropolitan Police Office > History
• Great Britain. Metropolitan Police Office
• Police > England > London > History
• Crime > England > London > History
• Criminal investigation > England > London > History
• Detectives > England > London > History
• Health promotion
• Medical policy
• Hispanic Americans
• Crime > Great Britain
• Criminals > Great Britain
• Health Promotion
• Health Policy
• Hispanic or Latino
• Medical policy
• Hispanic Americans
• Health promotion
• Criminals
• Crime
• Criminal investigation
• Detectives
• Police
• Police > Great Britain > London > History
• United States
• Great Britain
• England > London

Genre/Form

History

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 338.

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.

OCLC

• ocm01100211
• 1100211
• SCSB-546683

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library