The Ascent of the Detective : Police Sleuths in Victorian and Edwardian England.
The figure of the detective has long excited the imagination of the wider public, and the English police detective has been a special focus of attention in both print and visual media. Yet, while much has been written in the last three decades about the history of uniformed policemen in England, no...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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Oxford :
OUP Oxford,
2011.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | The figure of the detective has long excited the imagination of the wider public, and the English police detective has been a special focus of attention in both print and visual media. Yet, while much has been written in the last three decades about the history of uniformed policemen in England, no similar work has focused on police detectives. The Ascent of the Detective redresses this by exploring the diverse and often arcane world of English police detectives during theformative period of their profession, from 1842 until the First World War, with special emphasis on the famed detective bra. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (444 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 382-414) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191617966 0191617962 0191620300 9780191620300 0191804460 9780191804465 1283426714 9781283426718 9786613426710 6613426717 |