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  • Hardcover: 448 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press; 1 edition (November 14, 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0199577404
  • ISBN-13: 978-0199577408
  • Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 1.3 x 6.5 inches
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5.0 out of 5 starsSetting the Stage for Sherlock
By Rob Hardy HALL OF FAMETOP 500 REVIEWER on February 14, 2012
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Early Victorian Britain was proud that it had no detectives. Late Victorian and Edwardian Britain, conversely, was proud of its detectives, and everyone still knows of the most famous one, Sherlock Holmes. He might be fictional, but he rose at the time detective forces rose within Britain, and there are necessarily links between the legend of Holmes and the reality of British police services. The links, and much more, are investigated in _The Ascent of the Detective: Police Sleuths in Victorian and Edwardian England_ (Oxford University Press) by Haia Shpayer-Makov. The author teaches history in Israel, but has written previously on the history of the British police. Her current work is heavily academic and extensively researched and footnoted; the first part gives the details of the history of the growth of the branches of the detective service (necessarily concentrating on London), recruitment, pay, and so on, and will be of interest mostly to experts in the history of police work. The second part has to do with how detectives were presented within the print media, in newspapers, fiction, and in memoirs, and will be of interest to the fans who enjoy the eternal fascination of Holmes, as well as his many fictional counterparts.

Britain had police forces before it had detectives. The administrators of the new police force gradually realized that while uniformed men out in public might keep some crimes from happening, if a crime did happen, it was unlikely that a policeman would be easily available to interrupt it and that some arrangement had to be made to investigate and trace criminals after the fact. This was despite worries that non-uniformed police would operate in secret and use disguises. The press became vitally interested in Scotland Yard and in detectives in general.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsExcellent reading
By Diane Ferguson on December 3, 2012
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Informative as well as entertaining. Very useful for students doing Victorian History. Well written with enough details to assist one with research papers
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