Secret Sleuths
Dr Nell DarbyInvestigating the history of private detectives, with Dr Nell Darby
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A double success for Superintendent Moore
A short piece today, commemorating John George Moore of Portsmouth. John was a career policeman, and successful in his job, reaching the heights of inspector by 1901, and superintendent within a decade of that.
A view of Portsmouth...
Further exploits of Thomas Jones, PI
Trade directories for 1880 and 1882 record Thomas’s office as being at 4 Warren Street, near North 170th Street. However, this was not his home address: the 1880 census lists that as being Third Avenue. This same census records 52-year-old...
An Englishman in New York
In 19th century America, private detectives took on work that the state police either could not, or would not, do, being commissioned both by individuals and companies to investigate a wealth of cases, from allegations of adultery by marrie...
Secret Sleuths: the book
Since I started this substack, four years ago (eep!), I’ve amassed a whole load of stories about individual private detectives, as well as private detective agencies, covering a couple of centuries, and most of the UK. It seemed a shame to...
An investigative inheritance
A short piece today about an longstanding private detective, who perhaps learned from his father how to investigate.
Edward Russell is the man in question; born on 23 January 1839 in the Newgate Street area, he was a Londoner born and bred...
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