LANSDOWNE, Andrew.

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A Life's Reminiscences of Scotland Yard. First edition. The memoir was published during the spate of killings in Whitechapel carried out by "Jack the Ripper", when the police were the subject of criticism in the news media and fiction. Landsdowne's book aimed to counter the negative portrayal. This copy is from the crime library of Patricia Cornwell.Lansdowne joined the Metropolitan Police in 1869 and rose to become a detective inspector in the Criminal Investigation Department. His twenty-one "dockets", or chapters, have titles redolent of the pages of Sherlock Holmes: "A Piece of Blotting-Paper", "A Lady Burglar", "The Man with the Bull Neck", "The Red-Handled Trunk".

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