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Whitechapel's Sherlock Holmes: The Casebook of Fred Wensley OBE KPM, Victorian Crime Buster

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Whitechapel's Sherlock Holmes: The Casebook of Fred Wensley OBE KPM, Victorian Crime Buster

Jack the Ripper and beyondâ€”forty-one years in the investigative career of a man hailed by many as Scotland Yardâ€™s greatest detective of all time.
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Fred Wensley was a Somerset gardener when he joined the Metropolitan Police in 1888.
His first case was to unmask Jack the Ripper. At least it familiarized Wensley with Whitechapel, where he bided his time collaring less threatening neâ€™er-do-wells. After joining the CID, Wensleyâ€™s career was a succession of triumphs. He brought to book the Bessarabian, Odessa, and Vendetta crime syndicates of Londonâ€™s East End; he played an instrumental role in smashing Latvian revolutionaries in the notorious Siege of Sidney Street; he formed the Flying Squad, a stealth surveillance team still operating to this day; and most infamous of allâ€”his arrest in one of Great Britainâ€™s most notorious crimes of passion, a controversial cause cÃ©lÃ¨breÂ that would shadow Wensley for the rest of his life.
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Retired Flying Squad officer Dick Kirby has dug deep to paint a fascinating portrait of Fred Wensley, Chief Constable of the CID and the first recipient of the Kingâ€™s Police Medal, in this â€œwelcome biography of a distinguished detectiveâ€ (History by the Yard).

Country	USA
Author	Dick Kirby
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9781473843196
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Pen & Sword True Crime
Manufacturer	Pen & Sword True Crime
NumberOfPages	288
PublicationDate	2014-11-30
Publisher	Pen & Sword True Crime
ReleaseDate	2019-02-20
Studio	Pen & Sword True Crime

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