1. A biography of a research project: rerusing Plod with a view from the chaps -- 2. A natural history of the British Police: the contradiction of control -- 3. The 1960s: investigation and myth -- 4. A natural history of the CID: the 1960s and 1970s - a polarization of policing idelogies -- 5. The history of East London: a strol down Felony Lane -- 6. The adolescent entrepreneur: youth, style and cultural inheritance -- 7. East End entrepreneurship -- 8. Recruitment, presentation, and paper: the organizational context of detective entrepreneurship -- 9. Trading places - symbiotic control and occupational imagery -- Postscript: back to the future -- Appendix: Nostalgia rules - Hokey Cokey