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PREFACE.

CONTENTS.

Part I. THE GAMBLER.

Part II. GUILTY OR NOT GUILTY?

Part III. X. Y. Z.

Part IV. THE WIDOW.

Part V. THE TWINS.

Part VI. THE PURSUIT

Part VII. LEGAL METAMORPHOSES.

Part VIII. THE REVENGE.

Part IX. MARY KINGSFORD.

Part X. FLINT JACKSON.

Sketches OF THE LONDON DETECTIVE FORCE, FROM DICKENS’ “HOUSEHOLD WORDS.”

Part XI. THE MODERN SCIENCE OF THIEF-TAKING.

Part XII. A DETECTIVE POLICE PARTY.

Part XIII. THREE “DETECTIVE” ANECDOTES.

Part XIV. THE MARTYRS OF CHANCERY.

Part XV. LAW AT A LOW PRICE.

Part XVI. THE LAW.

Part XVII. THE DUTIES OF WITNESSES AND JURYMEN.

Part XVIII. BANK-NOTE FORGERIES.

Part XIX. THE DOOM OF ENGLISH WILLS.

Part XX. DISAPPEARANCES.

Part XXI. LOADED DICE.