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SECRET SERVICE
OR
RECOLLECTIONS
OF A
C I T Y D E T E C T I V E

By ANDREW FORRESTER, JUN.
AUTHOR OF “THE PRIVATE DETECTIVE”
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NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED
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LONDON
W A R D A N D L O C K
158 FLEET STREET
MDCCCLXIV
[All Rights are reserved]
LONDON:
ROBSON AND LEVEY, PRINTERS, GREAT NEW STREET,
FETTER LANE.

CONTENTS.

PAGE
[My Great Electioneering Trick][1]
[Mistaken Identity][35]
[An Unscrupulous Woman][50]
[The Incendiary Gang][60]
[A Railway Accident?][108]
[A Patriotic Barber in Fault][122]
[A Romance of Social Life][136]
[The Virtue of an American Passport][171]
[Who was the Greatest Criminal?][184]
[A Grand Railway “Plant”][208]
[An Episode of Criminal Justice][231]
[The Workhouse Doctor][242]
[The Missing Will][261]
[The Duke’s Mystery][270]
[The Attorney and the Smuggler][280]
[Swindling according To Act of Parliament][289]
[Matrimonial Espionage][303]

SECRET SERVICE
OR
Recollections of a City Detective

MY GREAT ELECTIONEERING TRICK.

ABOUT twelve years ago there was an election anticipated in the Borough of N——. It was a notorious place for bribery, as I, who have been professionally concerned in many elections, perfectly well knew. It was an extraordinary town. It had once been a very flourishing place. A staple trade had been carried on there, and almost nowhere else; but an evil spirit of gentility pervaded its corporation in those days.