I: The yard at work -- The murder of police Constable Gutteridge -- II: The need for Scotland Yard -- Eighteenth-century conditions: the watchmen -- Sir Thomas de Veil and the fieldings -- Bow Street experiments -- The Cato Street conspiracy -- III: The establishment of Scotland Yard -- The public opposition -- The Duke of Wellington's mistake -- The demand for reform of the criminal law -- Early years -- The institution of a criminal investigation department -- The McNaghten case -- The salt hill murder -- Disturbed years -- The Hempstead murder -- Burking horses -- The revolutions of 1848 -- Death of Sir Robert Peel -- The abolition of transportation -- The eventful year of the great exhibition -- The Rugeley poisoning and other crimes -- The Richmond murder -- The first train murder -- The road murder -- The growth of the C.I.D. -- The dynamiters -- The siege of Sidney Street -- The Crippen case -- The trail of the Seddons -- The theft of a pearl necklace -- The suffragettes -- The criminal record office -- The case of Adolf Beck -- The C.I.D. in wartime -- IV: The C.I.D. today -- The forged treasury notes -- The case of Madame Gerard -- The bridges in the bath case, 1915 -- The police strike -- The plot to assassinate Mr. Lloyd George -- The flying squad -- Fraud in connection with the late Lord Kitchener -- The work of Scotland Yard in cases of fraud -- The Mandeville case -- The case of E.T. Hooley and others -- The Bottomley case -- The Thompson and Bywaters case -- The Fahmy case -- The raid on the premises of the Russian trading delegation -- The murder of Vivian Messiter (1928) -- Coping with new conditions -- The existing organization at Scotland Yard -- The division of duties -- Recruiting -- The maintenance of discipline -- Complaints by the public -- The civil service staff -- The police in the divisions -- Superintendents -- The criminal investigation department
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (page 338) and index
Notes
Online resource (HeinOnline, viewed January 22, 2018)
