Detective Caminada's Casebook: Memoirs of Manchester's Sherlock Holmes

by Jerome Caminada, Angela Buckley (Editor)

Overview

Detective Jerome Caminada was a Victorian super-sleuth and a real-life Sherlock Holmes. A master of disguise and an expert in deduction, he pursued ruthless criminals through the dangerous streets of nineteenth century Manchester's underworld.

Detective Caminada's biographer, Angela Buckley, presents this unique anthology of his most fascinating cases, including quack doctors, forgers and con artists. In the first volume of his memoirs, published in 1895, Detective Caminada recounted how he tackled anarchists, caught an escaped political prisoner and faced his nemesis in a deadly confrontation. Bearing all the hallmarks of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, this compelling collection is essential reading for all lovers of historical crime.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780993564048
Publisher:	Manor Vale Associates
Publication date:	09/18/2017
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.47(d)

About the Author

Jerome Caminada was a detective in the Manchester City police force from 1868 to 1899. Known as 'Manchester's Sherlock Holmes', he was rewarded for having caught 1,225 criminals singlehandedly during his career. His signature case was the 'Manchester Cab Mystery', which he solved in the record time of three weeks. In 1895, Caminada published the first volume of his memoirs, Twenty-Five Years of Detective Life.

Angela's life of crime began with her own shady ancestors who struggled to survive in the dangerous slums of Victorian Manchester. Her first book was popular police biography, The Real Sherlock Holmes: The Hidden Story of Jerome Caminada (Pen and Sword, 2014). Her latest book, Amelia Dyer and the Baby Farm Murders, was the first in a new historical true crime series, Victorian Supersleuth Investigates. Who Killed Constable Cock? was the second.

Angela's writing about Victorian crime has featured in national magazines and newspapers, including The Times, The Telegraph, the Sunday Express, All About History and Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine. She is a regular contributor to Your Family History magazine, and Get Reading for which she writes a local crime history blog. Angela is a member of the Crime Writers' Association

An experienced speaker, Angela has taken part in many events, such as the Henley Literary Festival, the Manchester Histories Festival and at the Museum of London. She has been a guest on BBC Radio Berkshire and other BBC radio stations throughout the country. On television, she has appeared on Mysteries at the Museum and The One Show on BBC One.

A modern languages graduate, Angela's earlier career was in languages education: she was Head of Modern Languages in a large comprehensive school and lectured at Kings College London and Oxford Brookes University. She published several books in that field. A keen family historian, she is chair of the Society of Genealogists. Born in Manchester, Angela enjoys writing about her home city's colourful past.

Table of Contents

Preface

1. A Beginner in Uniform - Meeting a Tartar

2. My Baptism of Base Coiners

3. A "Ghost" In a Piano Case

4. Racecourse Thieves

5. The Reverend Quack

6. American Bank Thieves in England

7. The Country Bumpkin and His £200

8. Bank Note Forgers

9. The Confidence Trick

10. Ringing the Changes; Or, The "Bustle"

11. An Armed Burglar

12. How I Tracked Two Incendiaries

13. A Scene in Court

14. Manchester Anarchists at Work

15. Long Firm Frauds

16. The Arrest of Mr. William O'Brien, M.P., in Manchester

17. A Queer Customer

18. "Flying Gibb"

19. Frauds on Unemployed Girls

20. A Clever Forger

21. "Smashers," or Base Coin "Pitchers" or Tenderers

22. Gambling Hells

Glossary