314pp+illus. in text and plates+pub.cat. Very clean internally. Describing the methods of criminals from the area sneak to the professional card sharper, forger or murderer and the various ways in which they are circumvented and captured. The former Detective Inspector of Scotland Yard describes a variety of crimes and criminals in chapters on Pickpockets, Burglars, Women Swindlers, Matrimonial Frauds, White Slave Traffic, the Blackmailer, Seinn Feinn, Crime in the United States etc. explaining methods of identification such as facial features and fingerprints. Well illustrated with Index.

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