Buy this book on-line BEGG, PAUL & SKINNER, PAUL: : THE SCOTLAND YARD FILES: 150 YEARS OF THE C.I.D. 1842-1992LONDON.HEADLINE,1992. ISBN 0747203717.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,but price-clipped dw/dj. B/w+monochrome photographic upper wrap with red+white text with minimal shelf- wear and negligible creasing to dw/dj edges - no nicks or tears present.Both inner flaps of dw/dj have internal creasing,due in part,to incorrect closure of book at some stage of it's lifetime.Top +fore-edges slightly aged/toned,as usual/ normal,contents bright,tight and clean. Black paper-covered bds with bright,crisp, stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white eps.8vo,ix+1- 306pp includes title+half-title pages, contents list,19 chapters,32pp contemporary b/w illus/photographs: 16pp between pp82/3 and 16pp between
pp210/11 respectively,12pp biblio and an index.
150 years ago,amid considerable public suspicion,a tiny squad of six plain-clothes detectives was set up at Scotland Yard.From this grew the formidable Criminal Investigation Department, reknowned throughout the world for its unparalleled skill and experience in catching criminals.The famous newspaper headline,'SCOTLAND YARD CALLED IN.' still evokes all the pride and excitement of a crack team of detectives tackling the most notorious and baffling of crimes.
Working with the full support of Scotland Yard,the authors present the first history of the C.I.D. to appear for half a century.Paul Begg and Keith Skinner have discovered documents,memoirs and photographs never published before,some not even known to have existed.They give a full picture of the development of the detective and,uniquely,set it against a changing social scene.
'The Scotland Yard Files' scans the fascinating history of the C.I.D. from the first Great Train Robbery in 1885 to Jack the Ripper;Crippen to the Kray Twins; the Siege of Sidney Street to the Iranian Embassy Siege.It also chronicles the scandals which have periodically rocked the force,from the Great Scotland Yard Scandal,out of which the C.I.D. was born,to the Porn Enquiry.
What emerges is a story which shows that crime essentially hasn't changed - people have - and that the C.I.D.'s most difficult job is to adapt to changing social standards.Through this survey
of 150 years,'The Scotland Yard Files' looks at the type of police force we have now and that we may get in the future.
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