Readership: All those interested in the history of detectives, policing, and Victorian and Edwardian crime fiction.
Haia Shpayer-Makov, Professor of History at the University of Haifa
Haia Shpayer-Makov currently teaches British and European history at the University of Haifa, Israel. She began her academic career by concentrating on the anarchist movement in Britain, but later shifted her interest to the study of the anarchists' enemies - policemen. Author of The Making of a Policeman. A Social History of a Labour Force in Metropolitan London (2002), and co-editor with Professor Clive Emsley of Police Detectives in History, 1750-1950 (2006), she has also published extensively in leading scholarly journals.
"... fine and eminently readable book." - Bernard Porter, The Guardian
"This is a valuable addition to the growing body of scholarship on the history of Victorian crime. It does what historical enquiry surely should always do: raises important questions about how the present has the configuration we perceive, and why we have that perception." - Stephen Wade, Times Higher Education
"[An] absorbing work" - Frank R Crowe, Journal of the Law Society of Scotland
Introduction Part 1: The Detective in His Work Milieu 1: Police Detection in England: Eighteenth Century-First World War 2: From Bobby to Detective 3: The Detective as Wage Earner and Official Crime Fighter Part 2: Detectives and the Print Media 4: The Uniquely Symbiotic Relationship between Detectives and Journalists 5: The Changing Image of Police Detectives in the Press 6: Police Detectives in Fiction 7: Police Detectives as Authors Conclusion
