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Any 19th Cent. non-fiction books about police/crime?



I'm looking for non-fiction books written in the 19th Century about police/police departments and how they deal with crime (not really just for crime stories)... I'm having a difficult time figuring out where to begin looking for even just non-fiction written before 1900, so if anyone has any advice?

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Answer 1

There are tons of them. Victorian people were hooked on crime. It was a hugely popular subject among Victorians because of cases like Jack the Ripper. Try starting with the Victorian Web.http://www.victorianweb.org/ ---- They're, Their, There - Three Different Words. Careful or you may wind up in my next novel. Pax - C

Answer 2

Get books by Edgar Allan Poe, probably the first writer to produce crime novels and short stories, and writing about detection methods of the time. He's famous for The Phantom of the Rue Morgue,The Purloined Letter and many others. And all written in the 19th century

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