ADAM, Hargrave Lee.

£375 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

The Police Encyclopaedia. First edition of this extensive survey of the policing and criminal justice systems of late Victorian and Edwardian Britain. This copy is from the crime library of Patricia Cornwell.An accomplished writer of true crime books, Adam was a close associate of many high-ranking police officers of the day, including Robert Anderson, Chief of the Criminal Investigation Department at New Scotland Yard, who contributed the preface to this work.

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