Dick Kirby

Broschiertes Buch

Whitechapel's Sherlock Holmes

The Casebook of Fred Wensley Obe, Kpm - Victorian Crime Buster

Beschreibung

The story of Fred Wensley, a Somerset gardener who joined the Metropolitan Police in 1888 and retired, forty-one years later as Chief Constable of the CID, is an extraordinary one.

Autor

Dick Kirby was born in the East End of London and joined the Metropolitan Police in 1967. Half of his twenty-six years' service was spent with Scotland Yard's Serious Crime Squad and the Flying Squad. Kirby contributes to newspapers and magazines on a regular basis, as well as appearing on television and radio. The Guv'nors, The Sweeney, Scotland Yard's Ghost Squad, Brave Line Death on the Beat, Scourge of Soho, Crime and Corruption at The Yard and London Gangs at War are all published under the Wharncliffe True Crime imprint and he has further other published works to his credit. On retirement he lives near Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. Kirby can be visited at his website: www.dickkirby.com.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pen & Sword Books
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. März 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 162mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9781399078702
• ISBN-10: 1399078704
• Artikelnr.: 71266540