The Story of Scotland Yard

Table of contents

• Title Page iii
• A Word to the Header vii
• Contents xi
• Illustrations xv
• Part I the Yard at Work 1
• Chapter I the Murder of Police Constable Gutteridge 3
• Part II - The Need for Scotland Yard 13
• Chapter II - Eighteenth-Century Conditions 15
• Chapter III Sir Thomas De Veil and the Fieldings 26
• Chapter IV Bow Street Experiments 36
• Chapter V the Cato Street Conspiracy 45
• Part III the Establishment of Scotland Yard 63
• Chapter VII the Duke of Wellington's Mistake 80
• Chapter VIII: The Demand for Reform of the Criminal Law 90
• Chapter IX Early Years 108
• Chapter XI the Mcnaghten Case 115
• Chapter XII Disturbed Years 120
• Chapter XIII Death of Sir Robert Peel 132
• Chapter XIV the Eventful Year of the Great Exhibition 142
• Chapter XV the Rugeley Poisoning and Other Crimes 149
• Chapter XVI the Growth of the C.I.D. 166
• Chapter XVII the Dynamiters 182
• Chapter XVIII the Crippen Case 198
• Chapter XIX the Criminal Record Office 211
• Part IV the C.I.D. Today 235
• Chapter XX the Forged Treasury Notes 237
• Chapter XXI the Police Strike 252
• Chapter XXII the Flying Squad 262
• Chapter XXIII: The Work of Scotland Yard in Cases of Fraud 269
• Chapter XXIV: The Thompson and Bywaters Case 284
• Chapter XXV the Raid on the Premises of the Russian Trading Delegation 298
• Chapter XVII Coping with New Conditions 323
• Works Consulted 338
• Index 339

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