First Detective The Life and Revolutionary Times of Vidocq: Criminal, Spy and Private Eye

Name: First Detective The Life and Revolutionary Times of Vidocq: Criminal, Spy and Private Eye
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ISBN: 9781590206386

ISBN-10: 159020638X

ISBN-13: 9781590206386

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Authors: James Morton

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Eugene Fran ois Vidocq was born in France in 1775 and his life spanned the French Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars and the 1848 revolutions. He was the Inspector Morse, the Sherlock Holmes, the James Bond of his day. A notorious criminal, he turned police officer and employed a gang of ex-convicts as his detectives. He invented 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 he grew in notoriety. However, his infamy didn't prevent him from becoming a spy and moving secretly…

Book details

List price: $27.95
Publisher: Abrams, Inc.
Publication date: 6/30/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

James Morton was runner-up on Great British Bake Off 2012. He learnt to bake with his granny, growing up in the Shetland Isles. James is studying medicine at the University of Glasgow.



Introduction



Poacher



Vidocq Against His Parents



Vidocq Against His Wife in Particular



Vidocq Against Women in General



Vidocq Against the Gypsies



Vidocq Against the Feetwarmers



Vidocq and the Men from the Lyons Mail



Vidocq Against the Prison Ships



Vidocq Meets Francine Again



Vidocq Meets a Bad Angel



Vidocq as Supergrass



Gamekeeper



Vidocq Against ï¿½ses amis d'antanï¿½



Vidocq Triumphant



Vidocq at Bay



Vidocq at Saint-Mandï¿½



Vidocq Restored



Vidocq and His Agency



Vidocq in Polite Society



Vidocq at the Theatre



Vidocq in London



Vidocq's Criminal Friends



Vidocq's Last Mission



Vidocq Against Death



ï¿½A la recherche du temps Vidocqï¿½


Bibliography


Index