Table of Contents
Preface ix
Prologue xi
Chapter 1 'A very hot-bed of social iniquity and vice' (1844-1868) 1
Chapter 2 'A "Lively" Beat' (1868-1871) 8
Chapter 3 'Detective Jerome': Racecourse Duty and Street Brawls (1871-1876) 16
Chapter 4 Quack Doctors: 'Rascality, rapacity and roguery' (1876-1877) 24
Chapter 5 Sophisticated Swindles and Cunning Confidence Tricks (1878-1884) 33
Chapter 6 'Even my own fireside': Trouble at Home (1884) 42
Chapter 7 Gin Palaces, Gambling Dens and a Cross-Dressing Ball (1885) 49
Chapter 8 The Birmingham Forger (1886-1887) 58
Chapter 9 'The Professor Moriarty of the Slums' (1887) 64
Chapter 10 'City of Martyrs': Caminada and the Irish Nationalists (January 1889) 71
Chapter 11 The Manchester Cab Mystery (February 1889) 79
Chapter 12 The Beautiful Crook (1890-1891) 88
Chapter 13 Scuttlers and the Art of Gang Warfare (1892) 97
Chapter 14 False Lovers and Wily Seducers (1892-1893) 104
Chapter 15 The Anarchists of Ardwick Green (September 1893) 112
Chapter 16 The Blackley Mystery and other Suspicious Deaths (November 1893) 118
Chapter 17 'A Chronicle of Crime' (1895-1899) 125
Chapter 18 State Secrets and Undercover Missions (1901) 133
Chapter 19 'The Garibaldi of Detectives' (1902-1914) 139
Bibliography 149
Acknowledgements 153
Index 154
