Queer people by Basil Thomson

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Author Thomson, Basil, 1861-1939
LoC No. 22025824
Title Queer people
Original Publication London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1922.
Note Garden City, N.Y. edition (Doubleday, Page & company) has title: My experiences at Scotland Yard.
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.
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)
Language English
LoC Class D501: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: World War I (1914-1918)
Subject Crime -- Great Britain
Subject Criminals -- Great Britain
Subject World War, 1914-1918 -- Secret service -- Germany
Subject Great Britain. Metropolitan Police Office
Subject Detectives -- Great Britain
Category Text
eBook-No. 77709
Release Date
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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