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Memoirs of a Great Detective - Incidents in the Life of John Wilson Murray

1552461769

Self Published

Murray, John Wilson

$45.00

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The description is familiar to any student of modern detectives: An extensive knowledge of criminals and their methods. Good with his fists. A student of trifles. Relishes bizarre crimes. Believes criminal tendencies are hereditary. A man of great physical stamina and tireless in pursuit sometimes going without sleep or food for days. At the scene of a crime, this detective was known to throw himself on the ground to search each inch for clues, like a bloodhound. When it suited, he ignored some of the niceties of the law, even engaging in a spot of burglary. He could follow someone without being spotted and he understood how to feed information to the press to suit his own purposes. But this is not a description of Sherlock Holmes, famously brought alive through the pen of Arthur Conan Doyle. It is a character sketch of John Wilson Murray, the first police detective in Ontario and the province’s chief detective for three decades. The exploits and adventures that Conan Doyle fabricated for Sherlock Holmes, Murray actually lived. This collection of his greatest cases, as selected by Murray for his memoirs, proves that real life detection in Canada in the 1880s and 1890s was every bit as exciting as fictional detection in Victorian Britain. The excitement began before Murray came to Ontario in 1875. In the United States he played a crucial detection role on the Union side of a Civil War naval engagement and then went on to thwart various crooks as a private railway detective. His Canadian career took him to Europe, where he studied the methods of the Paris Sûreté and to South America where he pursued a suspected criminal through high Andes passes. Almost like another detective who traveled to a famous scenic waterfall in the Swiss Alps. Also available in Hardcover $60.00

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