Thirty Years a Detective: A Thorough and Comprehensive Exposé of Criminal Practices of All Grades and Classes: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Thirty Years a Detective: A Thorough and Comprehensive Exposé of Criminal Practices of All Grades and Classes, credited to Allan Pinkerton, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Thirty Years a Detective: A Thorough and Comprehensive Exposé of Criminal Practices of All Grades and Classes by Allan Pinkerton. Read in English by Mark Harrington. Detective Allan Pinkerton, creator of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, shares in this book the methods that criminals use to exploit the public. The detective breaks criminal thievery into 14 separate categories, and explains the ways of professional thieves to the public, so that the public can better protect itself. - Summary by Mark Harrington

Recording facts

• Recording title: Thirty Years a Detective: A Thorough and Comprehensive Exposé of Criminal Practices of All Grades and Classes
• Author credits: Allan Pinkerton
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 32
• Listed recording duration: 15:18:02

Catalogue topics

• Crime
• thieves
• burglars
• forgery
• pinkerton
• counterfeiting
• confidence schemes

Opening tracks: first 24 of 32

1. 00 Introduction — 19:47
2. 01 The Society Thief — 14:38
3. 02 The Pickpocket — 27:28
4. 03 Store Robbers — 20:41
5. 04 The "Boodle" Game — 16:44
6. 05 Hotel Thieves — 33:56
7. 06 Sneak Thieving (1) — 33:23
8. 07 Sneak Thieving (2) — 35:58
9. 08 Palace Car Thieves — 17:37
10. 09 Steamboat Operators — 17:16
11. 10 House Breaking — 21:59
12. 11 Confidence and Blackmail (1) — 33:16
13. 12 Confidence and Blackmail (2) — 35:04
14. 13 Confidence and Blackmail (3) — 30:35
15. 14 The Burglar (1) — 33:50
16. 15 The Burglar (2) — 24:30
17. 16 The Burglar (3) — 30:44
18. 17 The Burglar (4) — 31:47
19. 18 Forgers and Forging (1) — 27:17
20. 19 Forgers and Forging (2) — 39:52
21. 20 Forgers and Forging (3) — 41:07
22. 21 Forgers and Forging (4) — 38:45
23. 22 Forgers and Forging (5) — 16:06
24. 23 Counterfeiting and Counterfeiters (1) — 28:58

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