{"id":3017,"date":"2024-10-09T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-09T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/?p=3017"},"modified":"2024-09-19T15:56:40","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T19:56:40","slug":"scotland-yard-a-history-of-the-london-police-forces-most-infamous-murder-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/?p=3017","title":{"rendered":"Scotland Yard: A History of the London Police Force’s Most Infamous Murder Cases"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Simon Read<\/p>\n\n\n

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Year of Publication:\u00a0<\/strong>2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A summary from Goodreads: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A riveting true-crime history of London’s first modern police force as told through its most notorious murder cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The idea of “Scotland Yard” is steeped in atmospheric stories of foggy London streets, murder by lamplight, and fiendish killers pursued by gentleman detectives. From its establishment in 1829 through the eve of World War II, Scotland Yard\u2014the world\u2019s first modern, professional, and centrally organized police force\u2014set new standards for policing and investigating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scotland Yard advanced ground-breaking use of forensics\u2014from fingerprints to ballistics to evidence collection\u2014made the first attempt at criminal profiling, and captivated the public on both sides of the Atlantic with feats of detective work that rivaled any fictional interpretation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Based on official case files, contemporary newspaper reporting, trial transcripts, and the first-hand accounts of the detectives on the beat, Scotland Yard tells the tales of some of history\u2019s most notorious murders\u2014with cases that proved to be landmarks in the field of criminal inquiry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Goshen Public Library call number: <\/strong> 363.209 READ (BOOK)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Simon Read Year of Publication:\u00a02024 A summary from Goodreads:  A riveting true-crime history of London’s first modern police force as told through its most notorious murder cases. The idea of “Scotland Yard” is steeped in atmospheric stories of foggy London streets, murder by lamplight, and fiendish killers pursued by gentleman detectives. From its establishment […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3017"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3019,"href":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3017\/revisions\/3019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goshenpublib.org\/spotlight\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}