{"product_id":"chronicles-of-bow-street-police-office-with-an-account-of-the-magistrates-runners-and-police-and-a-selection-of-the-most-interesting-cases-paperback-9781108036955","title":"Chronicles of Bow Street Police-Office; With an Account of the Magistrates, ‘Runners', and Police; and a Selection of the Most Interesting Cases (Paperback \/ softback) 9781108036955","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eChronicles of Bow Street Police-Office\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eWith an Account of the Magistrates, ‘Runners', and Police; and a Selection of the Most Interesting Cases\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePublished in 1888, this two-volume work depicts the Bow Street Runners, the London police force of the eighteenth century.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003ePercy Fitzgerald (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108036955, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 8 December 2011\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e422 pages, 14 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 2.4 cm, 0.53 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePercy Fitzgerald (1834–1925) was a prolific author, critic, painter and sculptor. He was born in Ireland and attended Stonyhurst College in Lancashire, and then Trinity College Dublin. When he moved to London, he became a contributor to Charles Dickens' periodical Household Words. This two-volume work, published in 1888, gives a stirring account of the work of London's eighteenth-century law enforcers, the Bow Street Runners. Drawing on records of criminal cases, it tells how magistrates Henry Fielding and his blind half-brother Sir John Fielding helped to set up the Runners. Their actions dramatically reduced violent crime in the city and paved the way for the modern police force. Volume 2 features a wide selection of fascinating cases including the Cato Street Conspiracy and the callous murder of William Weare.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e1. A strange episode\u003cbr\u003e 2. Bow Street and the patent theatres\u003cbr\u003e 3. Bank and coach robberies\u003cbr\u003e 4. Accomplished swindlers\u003cbr\u003e 5. Various murders and robberies\u003cbr\u003e 6. The Greenwich tragedy\u003cbr\u003e 7. The murder of Weare\u003cbr\u003e 8. The Cato Street plot\u003cbr\u003e 9. The Queen's funeral in 1821\u003cbr\u003e 10. The resurrection men\u003cbr\u003e 11. Murder of the Italian boy\u003cbr\u003e 12. Sir J. Dean Paul and Co.\u003cbr\u003e 13. The Waterloo Bridge Mystery\u003cbr\u003e 14. Dr Bernard\u003cbr\u003e 15. Governor Eyre\u003cbr\u003e 16. The Baron de Vidil\u003cbr\u003e 17. 'The Flowery Land' pirates\u003cbr\u003e 18. Muller\u003cbr\u003e 19. The Clerkenwell explosion\u003cbr\u003e 20. The female personators\u003cbr\u003e 21. Kurr and Benson\u003cbr\u003e 22. De Tourville's case\u003cbr\u003e 23. 'The slate trick'\u003cbr\u003e 24. The dynamiters\u003cbr\u003e 25. The new police.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: British \u0026amp; Irish history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on British \u0026amp; Irish history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22British%20\u0026amp;%20Irish%20history%20%5BHBJD1%5D%22\"\u003eHBJD1\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45913002017048,"sku":"9781108036955","price":32.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781108036955i_56eff499-602a-4412-8016-fadf33ccaaef.jpg?v=1694879956","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/chronicles-of-bow-street-police-office-with-an-account-of-the-magistrates-runners-and-police-and-a-selection-of-the-most-interesting-cases-paperback-9781108036955","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}