Traced and Tracked; Or, Memoirs of a City Detective. James M'Govan

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       James M'Govan

      Traced and Tracked; Or, Memoirs of a City Detective

      Published by Good Press, 2019

       [email protected]

      EAN 4064066231002

Table of Contents

       PREFACE.

       A PEDESTRIAN’S PLOT.

       BILLY’S BITE.

       THE MURDERED TAILOR’S WATCH. (A C URIOSITY IN C IRCUMSTANTIAL E VIDENCE.)

       THE STREET PORTER’S SON.

       A BIT OF TOBACCO PIPE.

       THE BROKEN CAIRNGORM.

       THE ROMANCE OF A REAL CREMONA.

       THE SPIDER AND THE SPIDER-KILLER.

       THE SPOILT PHOTOGRAPH.

       THE STOLEN DOWRY.

       M c SWEENY AND THE MAGIC JEWELS.

       BENJIE BLUNT’S CLEVER ALIBI.

       JIM HUTSON’S KNIFE.

       THE HERRING SCALES.

       ONE LESS TO EAT.

       THE CAPTAIN’S CHRONOMETER.

       THE TORN TARTAN SHAWL.

       A LIFT ON THE ROAD.

       THE ORGAN-GRINDER’S MONEY-BAG.

       THE BERWICK BURR.

       THE WRONG UMBRELLA.

       A WHITE SAVAGE.

       THE BROKEN MISSIONARY.

       A MURDERER’S MISTAKE.

       A HOUSE-BREAKER’S WIFE.

       M c SWEENY AND THE CHIMNEY-SWEEP.

       THE FAMILY BIBLE.

       CONSCIENCE MONEY.

       A WOLF IN SHEEP’S CLOTHING.

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      The gratifying success of my former experiences—25,000 copies having already been sold, and the demand steadily continuing—has induced me to put forth another volume. In doing so, I have again to thank numerous correspondents, as well as the reviewers of the public press, for their warm expressions of appreciation and approval. I have also to notice a graceful compliment from Berlin, in the translation of my works into German, by H. Ernst Duby; and another from Geneva, in the translation of a selection of my sketches into French, by the Countess Agènor de Gasparin.

      A severe and unexpected attack of hæmorrhage of the lungs has prevented me revising about a third of the present volume. I trust, therefore, that any trifling slips or errors will be excused on that account.

      In conclusion, I would remind readers and reviewers of the words of Handel, when he was complimented by an Irish nobleman on having amused the citizens of Dublin with his Messiah. “Amuse dem?” he warmly replied; “I do not vant to amuse dem only; I vant to make dem petter.”

      JAMES M^cGOVAN.

      EDINBURGH, October 1884.

       A PEDESTRIAN’S PLOT, • 1

       BILLY’S BITE, • 13

       THE MURDERED TAILOR’S WATCH, • 24

       THE STREET PORTER’S SON, • 44

       A BIT OF TOBACCO PIPE, • 57

       THE BROKEN CAIRNGORM, • 68

       THE ROMANCE OF A REAL CREMONA, • 79

       THE SPIDER AND THE SPIDER-KILLER, • 104

       THE SPOILT PHOTO­GRAPH, • 115

       THE STOLEN DOWRY, • 127

       McSWEENY AND THE MAGIC JEWELS, • 139

       BENJIE BLUNT’S CLEVER ALIBI, • 150

       JIM HUTSON’S KNIFE, • 161