Excerpt from Autobiography of an English Detective, Vol. 2 of 2 IT is perhaps unnecessary to remark that in making these selections from rough leaves scribbled over with memoranda of a busy life, I have been governed - more or less unconsciously - by a desire to appear as well as possible before the public. I am far, however, from Wishing to insinuate that I have not sometimes failed lamentably as a de tective oflicer. Those failures have been frequent enough; but I do not like to parade them choosing, in preference, to set out my successes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.