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The First Detective : The Life and Revolutionary Times of Vidocq: Criminal, Spy and Private Eye by James Morton (2011, Hardcover)

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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 cavalier attitude towards the thin blue line forced him out of the police. So he began the world's very first private detective agency. The cases he solved were high profile, and gradually he grew in notoriety. However, his reputation didn't prevent him from becoming a spy and moving secretly across the dangerous borders of Europe. The First Detective is a gloriously enjoyable historical romp through the eighteenth century in the company of the man whose influence on law enforcement still holds to this day.

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Publisher
Abrams, Inc.
ISBN-10
159020638x
ISBN-13
9781590206386
eBay Product ID (ePID)
22038461013

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Book Title
First Detective : the Life and Revolutionary Times of Vidocq: Criminal, Spy and Private Eye
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2011
Topic
Espionage, General, Law Enforcement, Criminals & Outlaws, Customs & Traditions, Criminology
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, True Crime, History, Social Science, Political Science
Author
James Morton
Format
Hardcover

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Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
17.5 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.3 in

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Praise for The First Detective : "The picaresque adventures of the legendary French thief, cuckold, turncoat and spy. Former lawyer turned proficient crime writer Morton finds an irresistible subject in Eug ne-Fran ois Vidocq . . . Wry and rollicking, these escapades offer old- fashioned literary fun." -- Kirkus "Entertaining." -- Sunday Telegraph "Morton is civilized, liberal and amusing." -- The Times "You really must read . . . The First Detective : the extraordinary life and times of a career-criminal." -- Sunday Times, Praise for The First Detective : "The author tracks the shadowy figure whose exploits inspired novelists." -- LA Times "Informative and generally enjoyable read." -- Booklist "The picaresque adventures of the legendary French thief, cuckold, turncoat and spy. Former lawyer turned proficient crime writer Morton finds an irresistible subject in Eugene-Fran ois Vidocq . . . Wry and rollicking, these escapades offer old-fashioned literary fun." -- Kirkus "James Morton's biography provides a fast-moving introduction to 'the Terror of Thieves''" -- Washington Post "Entertaining." -- Sunday Telegraph "Morton is civilized, liberal and amusing." -- The Times "You really must read . . . The First Detective : the extraordinary life and times of a career-criminal." -- Sunday Times, "The author tracks the shadowy figure whose exploits inspired novelists." -- Los Angeles Times "An impressively exhaustive examination." -- Sacramento/San Francisco Book Review, Praise for The First Detective : "The author tracks the shadowy figure whose exploits inspired novelists." -- LA Times "Informative and generally enjoyable read." -- Booklist "The picaresque adventures of the legendary French thief, cuckold, turncoat and spy. Former lawyer turned proficient crime writer Morton finds an irresistible subject in Eug ne-Fran ois Vidocq . . . Wry and rollicking, these escapades offer old-fashioned literary fun." -- Kirkus Entertaining. -- Sunday Telegraph Morton is civilized, liberal and amusing. -- The Times You really must read . . . The First Detective : the extraordinary life and times of a career-criminal. -- Sunday Times, Praise for The First Detective : "The author tracks the shadowy figure whose exploits inspired novelists." -- LA Times "Informative and generally enjoyable read." -- Booklist "The picaresque adventures of the legendary French thief, cuckold, turncoat and spy. Former lawyer turned proficient crime writer Morton finds an irresistible subject in Eugene-François Vidocq . . . Wry and rollicking, these escapades offer old-fashioned literary fun." -- Kirkus "James Morton's biography provides a fast-moving introduction to 'the Terror of Thieves''" -- Washington Post "Morton does an admirable job wading through the many gray areas of his subject's life in order to distinguish believable fantasies from often-unbelievable realities. An impressively exhaustive examination" -- Sacramento/San Francisco Book Review "Entertaining." -- Sunday Telegraph "Morton is civilized, liberal and amusing." -- The Times "You really must read . . . The First Detective : the extraordinary life and times of a career-criminal." -- Sunday Times "The riveting story of the world's first private detective, who was one of its great criminals . . . James Morton, the bestselling author of the Gangland series, uses fine research and legal knowledge to illuminate the life of the world's original private eye." --Daily Beast
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Age Range
18
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