The Resource How to be a detective : a complete text book of the methods and practices used by the best detectives in dealing with the criminal, together with a criminal vocabulary, by F.H. Tillotson
How to be a detective : a complete text book of the methods and practices used by the best detectives in dealing with the criminal, together with a criminal vocabulary, by F.H. Tillotson
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- Summary
- The author, identified as "An Old Detective of Twenty-Five Years Experience," expounds on the common crimes committed in the early 20th-century American West. Includes chapters on bank burglary, the Bertillion system of measuring individuals, the use of nitroglycerine to blow open safes, thieves' slang, "porch climbers," how to rob a flat, "check workers," forgery, stealing silverware from restaurants, pickpockets, shoplifters, "pennyweighters," wire tapping, the gold brick trick, the sawdust swindle, plus profiles of famed criminals Sophie Lyons and Mark Shinburn. With 6 photographs of blown safes and 20 photographs of bank robbers and train robbers
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (187 pages)
- Note
- ©2020 Cassidy Cataloguing Services, Inc
- Label
- How to be a detective : a complete text book of the methods and practices used by the best detectives in dealing with the criminal, together with a criminal vocabulary
- Title
- How to be a detective
- Title remainder
- a complete text book of the methods and practices used by the best detectives in dealing with the criminal, together with a criminal vocabulary
- Statement of responsibility
- by F.H. Tillotson
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- The author, identified as "An Old Detective of Twenty-Five Years Experience," expounds on the common crimes committed in the early 20th-century American West. Includes chapters on bank burglary, the Bertillion system of measuring individuals, the use of nitroglycerine to blow open safes, thieves' slang, "porch climbers," how to rob a flat, "check workers," forgery, stealing silverware from restaurants, pickpockets, shoplifters, "pennyweighters," wire tapping, the gold brick trick, the sawdust swindle, plus profiles of famed criminals Sophie Lyons and Mark Shinburn. With 6 photographs of blown safes and 20 photographs of bank robbers and train robbers
- Cataloging source
- NjRocCCS
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Tillotson, F. H
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- portraits
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- HV8085
- LC item number
- .T54 1909
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
- Series statement
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- HeinOnline core collection
- HeinOnline criminal justice & criminology
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Detectives
- Private investigators
- Bank robberies
- Train robberies
- Outlaws
- Target audience
- specialized
- Label
- How to be a detective : a complete text book of the methods and practices used by the best detectives in dealing with the criminal, together with a criminal vocabulary, by F.H. Tillotson
- Note
- ©2020 Cassidy Cataloguing Services, Inc
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- black and white
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (187 pages)
- File format
- one file format
- Form of item
- online
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Other physical details
- illustrations, portraits
- Quality assurance targets
- unknown
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Specific material designation
- remote
- Label
- How to be a detective : a complete text book of the methods and practices used by the best detectives in dealing with the criminal, together with a criminal vocabulary, by F.H. Tillotson
- Note
- ©2020 Cassidy Cataloguing Services, Inc
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- black and white
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (187 pages)
- File format
- one file format
- Form of item
- online
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Other physical details
- illustrations, portraits
- Quality assurance targets
- unknown
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Specific material designation
- remote
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