The crime code

At the outset I wish to impress on those who read this straightforward and unembellished narrative of my amazing and often exciting adventures, that I seek not to hide my own shortcomings, for they are alas! many; nor do I in the least desire to pose as a vainglorious hero. At least, I am not one who slops about in the oozy slime of the sex problem. From leading the normal life of an ordinary young man about London, I was, by a strange freak of ill-fortune, and in the space of a single minu...