Secret Service; or, Recollections of a City Detective
Author: first_name: Andrew
last_name: Forrester
Language: English
Year: 1864

This book of fiction from 1864, as you can guess from the title, presents a series of accounts of different cases that the “City Detective” has worked. All are enhanced by the author’s dry sense of humor. The cases include political corruption, forgery, theft, smuggling, infidelity, and more. Our detective is unnamed, writing in first person and thus known simply as “I.”  - Summary by Verla Viera