Forty Years of Scotland Yard: The Record of a Lifetime's Service in the Criminal Investigation Department

xvii, 312 pp. "I tell in this book of some of the experiences of forty years. Since I have kept no diaries, and consulted no records save those accessible to the general public, these memories and reflections must be regarded as a personal narrative. There are limits of discretion and taste beyond which it is neither necessary nor desirable to step. I am acutely conscious, also, that I have omitted the names of many of the able and loyal colleagues with whom it has been my privilege to be associated at various times. To have dealt with them all would have swelled this volume to undue proportions. Within these bounds I have tried to be entirely frank in presenting an unexaggerated picture of the realities of detective life. Apart from any general interest these memoirs may possess, it is my hope that they may afford some instruction and guidance, in not too indigestible a form, to the younger members of my profession."--Preface