| Author |
Thomson, Basil, 1861-1939 |
| LoC No. |
22025824
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| Title |
Queer people
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| Original Publication |
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1922.
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| Note |
Garden City, N.Y. edition (Doubleday, Page & company) has title: My experiences at Scotland Yard.
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| Contents |
The detective in real life -- The imaginative liar -- The lure of something for nothing -- The first days -- The Special Branch -- War crimes -- The Germans and the Irish -- The Casement case -- Strange side shows -- The German spy -- Müller and others -- The hireling spy -- The last executions -- Some Americans -- Women spies -- Curious visitors -- The end of Rasputin -- Recruits for the enemy -- The decline of morale -- The bogus princess -- Footnotes to the Peace Conference -- The royal unemployed -- Unrest at home -- Our Communists -- The return to sanity.
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| Credits |
MWS, PrimeNumber and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries)
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| Language |
English |
| LoC Class |
D501: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: World War I (1914-1918)
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| Subject |
Crime -- Great Britain
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| Subject |
Criminals -- Great Britain
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| Subject |
World War, 1914-1918 -- Secret service -- Germany
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| Subject |
Great Britain. Metropolitan Police Office
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| Subject |
Detectives -- Great Britain
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| Category |
Text |
| EBook-No. |
77709 |
| Release Date |
Jan 16, 2026 |
| Copyright Status |
Public domain in the USA. |
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