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Waters, Thomas

 
9789357311793: Recollections of a Detective Police-Officer
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 9357311793 ISBN 13 : 9789357311793
Editeur : Hachette India, 2025

Synopsis

Amongst the earliest police memoirs
This volume, an enlarged version from its first appearance in 1860, is a collection of true-crime stories. Written by Thomas Waters, aka William Russell, a detective inspector in London, the stories are based on real events.
From run-ins with gamblers, through burglaries and missing persons to counterfeiting, Waters has seen it all.

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À propos de l'auteur

Thomas Waters aka William Russell (1806–1876) was an English writer considered among the first and most prolific authors to write 'police memoirs' or detective stories (some published under the pseudonym 'Waters' or 'Thomas Waters'). He also wrote nautical adventures (under the pseudonym 'Lieutenant Warneford, R.N.'), and legal stories.
Russell is thought to have been born in Southampton in 1806, and in the late 1840s started contributing an irregular series of stories to Chambers's Edinburgh Journal between 1849 and 1852. He also contributed to The London Journal, St. James's Magazine, and The Sixpenny Magazine.
Ten of Russell's Chambers detective stories were subsequently published in unauthorized editions in New York in 1852 and 1853, entitled The Recollections of a Policeman. The same ten, plus two additional stories, were then collated into a volume entitled Recollections of a Detective Police-Officer, published in London in 1856 (also reprinted with slightly different titles). A collection of his sea stories appeared in Tales of the Coast Guard (also 1856), and Leaves from the Diary of a Law Clerk was published in 1857.
Among other works, Autobiography of an English Detective was published in two volumes in 1863.

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Éditeur
Hachette India
Date d'édition
2025
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
9357311793
ISBN 13 
9789357311793
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
350
Coordonnées du fabricant
Hyperion
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