THE FIRST DETECTIVE : The Life and Revolutionary Times of EUGÈNE FRANÇOIS VIDOCQ : Criminal, Spy And Private Eye /
He was the Inspector Morse, the Sherlock Holmes, the James Bond of his day. A notorious criminal in his youth, he became a police officer and employed a gang of ex-convicts as his detectives. He developed innovative criminal indexing techniques and experimented with fingerprinting, until his cavalie...
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London : Ebury Press,
2005
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