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Secret Service; or, Recollections of a City Detective

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 (9 hr 10 min)

Chapters

My Great Electioneering Trick, Part 1

24:08

My Great Electioneering Trick, Part 2

39:30

Mistaken Identity

22:40

An Unscrupulous Woman

15:21

The Incendiary Gang, Part 1

28:35

The Incendiary Gang, Part 2

32:43

The Incendiary Gang, Part 3

29:11

A Railway Accident?

30:19

A Patriotic Barber in Fault

23:21

A Romance of Social Life, Part 1

31:38

A Romance of Social Life, Part 2

30:04

The Virtue of an American Passport

25:41

Who Was the Greatest Criminal?

43:56

A Grand Railway “Plant”

30:46

An Episode of Criminal Justice

23:00

The Workhouse Doctor

29:16

The Missing Will

16:14

The Duke’s Mystery

14:49

The Attorney and the Smuggler

15:03

Swindling According to Act of Parliament

26:00

Matrimonial Espionage

18:09