The thief-takers.
Edition: [1st ed.]
Publisher: Norton
Published: 1970
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
Subjects: Police -- History -- Fiction.; London (England) -- History -- 18th century -- Fiction.
Description: When his father dies in jail after unjust arrest, a fifteen-year-old boy becomes an informer for a London Justice trying to organize a paid police force.