Autobiography of an English Detective, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Autobiography of an English Detective, Vol. 1 of 2

It may sound strangely, but is not the less true, that I joined the Metropolitan Detective Police Force - only the name of which is modern, the vocation itself being as old as corrupt, civilized and uncivilized humanity - before I had quite attained the ripe age of sixteen. My stepfather, at that time a well-known Bow-street officer - Bow-street Runner was the more common appellation - a stern, iron-willed, but just man, believed implicitly in the wisdom of Solomon, especially in the part thereof which teaches that to spare the rod is to spoil the child.

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