MEMOIRS OF A GREAT CANADIAN DETECTIVE - Incidents in the Life of John Wilson Murray by Murray, John Wilson - 1978

Toronto: Collins, 1978. (xiv) 226 pp. Red cloth lettered in gilt on the spine; headband. Light edge and corner wear on the dustjacket; previous owner's name inside. John Wilson Murray was appointed Detective of the Department of Justice of the Province of Ontario in April of 1875, and for the next thirty years, he was the most famous cop in Canada. The Contents are: Introduction; Murray; From Babyhood to Battleship; The First Case: Confederate Cole's Coup; A Word by the Way; How a Feud almost Burned Erie; A King, a Lunatic, and a Burglar - Three in One, and None at All; The Box-Car Battle of Sweetman and the Thrashers with the Wheat; The Course of a Career; Sanctimonious Bond; The Driverless Team on Caledonia Road; The Shitesides of Ballinafad; The Six-Foot Needhams: Father and Son; Pretty Mary Ward of the Government Gardens; When Glengarry Wrecked the Circus; The Million Dollar Counterfeiting; Heney, of the Welted Forehead; The Tookes's Revel in Riches; John Dobbin, from beyond the Quicksand; Baldy Drinkwater; The Shanty City in Georgian Bay; Reginald Birchall: Occupation, Murderer; The Four Barn Burnings of Chatham; Alemda Chattelle, the Hairy Man; The Middlemarch Mystery; The Graded Grays; George Alger's Graveyard Policy; The Voice of the Haunted House; Whimpering Mim Allison; The Turnip Pit Tragedy; Why Humphrey Went Back to Prison; Laing of Lawrason's, Thrifty Thief; Melvin hall, Freebooter; The Murder of Joseph Sifton; and The Crime of Charlie King; followed by In Conclusion.. Second Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Book.