Secret Service; or, Recollections of a City Detective

Andrew Forrester (1832 - c. 1909)

This book of fiction from 1864, as you can guess from the title, presents a series of accounts of different cases that the “City Detective” has worked. All are enhanced by the author’s dry sense of humor. The cases include political corruption, forgery, theft, smuggling, infidelity, and more. Our detective is unnamed, writing in first person and thus known simply as “I.” - Summary by Verla Viera

Genre(s): Detective Fiction

Language: English

Keyword(s): fiction (1579), Mystery (739), Detective (165), Investigator (2)

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 01 My Great Electioneering Trick, Part 1 Laurie Wehmeyer
00:24:08
Play 02 My Great Electioneering Trick, Part 2 Doug Fajardo
00:39:30
Play 03 Mistaken Identity S. Emily Lee
00:22:40
Play 04 An Unscrupulous Woman ToddHW
00:15:21
Play 05 The Incendiary Gang, Part 1 Martha H. Weller
00:28:35
Play 06 The Incendiary Gang, Part 2 Martha H. Weller
00:32:43
Play 07 The Incendiary Gang, Part 3 Martha H. Weller
00:29:11
Play 08 A Railway Accident? lightcrystal
00:30:19
Play 09 A Patriotic Barber in Fault Marina
00:23:21
Play 10 A Romance of Social Life, Part 1 Martha H. Weller
00:31:38
Play 11 A Romance of Social Life, Part 2 Martha H. Weller
00:30:04
Play 12 The Virtue of an American Passport chuckconvr
00:25:41
Play 13 Who Was the Greatest Criminal? jenno
00:43:56
Play 14 A Grand Railway “Plant” Cbteddy
00:30:46
Play 15 An Episode of Criminal Justice bobpliley
00:23:00
Play 16 The Workhouse Doctor Marina
00:29:16
Play 17 The Missing Will Avery Wade
00:16:14
Play 18 The Duke’s Mystery Verla Viera
00:14:49
Play 19 The Attorney and the Smuggler Zhongdonian
00:15:03
Play 20 Swindling According to Act of Parliament bobpliley
00:26:00
Play 21 Matrimonial Espionage Amber H
00:18:09