Secret Service; or, Recollections of a City Detective


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(4.5 stars; 5 reviews)

This book of fiction from 1864, as you can guess from the title, presents a series of accounts of different cases that the “City Detective” has worked. All are enhanced by the author’s dry sense of humor. The cases include political corruption, forgery, theft, smuggling, infidelity, and more. Our detective is unnamed, writing in first person and thus known simply as “I.” - Summary by Verla Viera (9 hr 10 min)

Chapters

My Great Electioneering Trick, Part 1 24:08 Read by Laurie Wehmeyer
My Great Electioneering Trick, Part 2 39:30 Read by Doug Fajardo
Mistaken Identity 22:40 Read by S. Emily Lee
An Unscrupulous Woman 15:21 Read by ToddHW
The Incendiary Gang, Part 1 28:35 Read by Martha H. Weller
The Incendiary Gang, Part 2 32:43 Read by Martha H. Weller
The Incendiary Gang, Part 3 29:11 Read by Martha H. Weller
A Railway Accident? 30:19 Read by lightcrystal
A Patriotic Barber in Fault 23:21 Read by Marina
A Romance of Social Life, Part 1 31:38 Read by Martha H. Weller
A Romance of Social Life, Part 2 30:04 Read by Martha H. Weller
The Virtue of an American Passport 25:41 Read by chuckconvr
Who Was the Greatest Criminal? 43:56 Read by jenno
A Grand Railway “Plant” 30:46 Read by Cbteddy
An Episode of Criminal Justice 23:00 Read by bobpliley
The Workhouse Doctor 29:16 Read by Marina
The Missing Will 16:14 Read by Avery Wade
The Duke’s Mystery 14:49 Read by Verla Viera
The Attorney and the Smuggler 15:03 Read by Zhongdonian
Swindling According to Act of Parliament 26:00 Read by bobpliley
Matrimonial Espionage 18:09 Read by Amber H