Review: Different Times, Different Crimes
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 1, 2013
We don't see any train robberies today for the money in the express car. Money is moved by wire transfer where once it was physically moved to meet company payrolls. The very term "hold up" is a reference to a method for robbing a train.Also, people are tracked around the country today by cell phone and credit card records. This book details some 19th crimes and the techniques used to solve them in the absence of computers and computer data bases.