The story of Scotland Yard
By: Sir Basil Thomson.
Publisher: Literary Guild
Published: 1936
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 347
Subjects: Great Britain. Metropolitan Police Office -- History.; Crime and criminals -- Great Britain.; Police -- Great Britain.; London (England) -- Police.
Other titles: Scotland Yard.
Table of contents: title: I: The yard at work; title: The murder of police Constable Gutteridge; title: II: The need for Scotland Yard; title: Eighteenth-century conditions: the watchmen; title: Sir Thomas de Veil and the fieldings; title: Bow Street experiments; title: The Cato Street conspiracy; title: III: The establishment of Scotland Yard; title: The public opposition; title: The Duke of Wellington's mistake; title: The demand for reform of the criminal law; title: Early years; title: The institution of a criminal investigation department; title: The McNaghten case; title: The salt hill murder; title: Disturbed years; title: The Hempstead murder; title: Burking horses; title: The revolutions of 1848; title: Death of Sir Robert Peel; title: The abolition of transportation; title: The eventful year of the great exhibition; title: The Rugeley poisoning and other crimes; title: The Richmond murder; title: The first train murder; title: The road murder; title: The growth of the C.I.D.; title: The dynamiters; title: The siege of Sidney Street; title: The Crippen case; title: The trail of the Seddons; title: The theft of a pearl necklace; title: The suffragettes; title: The criminal record office; title: The case of Adolf Beck; title: The C.I.D. in wartime; title: IV: The C.I.D. today; title: The forged treasury notes; title: The case of Madame Gerard; title: The bridges in the bath case, 1915; title: The police strike; title: The plot to assassinate Mr. Lloyd George; title: The flying squad; title: Fraud in connection with the late Lord Kitchener; title: The work of Scotland Yard in cases of fraud; title: The Mandeville case; title: The case of E.T. Hooley and others; title: The Bottomley case; title: The Thompson and Bywaters case; title: The Fahmy case; title: The raid on the premises of the Russian trading delegation; title: The murder of Vivian Messiter (1928); title: Coping with new conditions; title: The existing organization at Scotland Yard; title: The division of duties; title: Recruiting; title: The maintenance of discipline; title: Complaints by the public; title: The civil service staff; title: The police in the divisions; title: Superintendents; title: The criminal investigation department.