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Secret Service; or, Recollections of a City Detective

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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