Clendenen’s Detective Manual

About this eBook

Author

Clendenen, Rufus Howard, 1882-1959

Title

Clendenen's detective manual : How to become a successful detective

Original Publication

Charleston: Lovett Printing Company Press, 1922.

Credits

Tim Miller, Karin Spence and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

HV: Social sciences: Social pathology, Social and Public Welfare

Subject

Detectives

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 78873

Release Date

June 15, 2026

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.CLENDENEN’S DETECTIVE MANUAL
2. 2.INTRODUCTION
3. 3.Chapter I. The Detective Profession in Full.
4. 4.Chapter II. Preliminary Generalities.
5. 5.Chapter III. Elementary Principles.
6. 6.Chapter IV. Origin of Criminals.
7. 7.Chapter V. Methods and Procedure of the Profession.
8. 8.Chapter VI. The House Man or Hotel Detective.
9. 9.Chapter VII. Industrial Detective Work.
10. 10.Chapter VIII. Insurance Detectives.
11. 11.Chapter IX. Criminal Slang—Used by All Classes of Criminals.
12. 12.Chapter X. Scotland Yard Detectives.
13. 13.Chapter XI. Legal Phrases of Criminal and Civil Law.
14. 14.Chapter XII. Tricks of the Up-to-Date Crook.
15. 15.Chapter XIII. Private Detectives.
16. 16.Chapter XIV. Description, or How to Describe Person Wanted.
17. 17.Chapter XV. Modern Methods of Detecting Crime.
18. 18.Chapter XVI. Proof of Positive Identification—the Finger Print. — JENNINGS CASE. — THE CHARLES CRISPI CASE.
19. 19.Story Section — Professional Bootlegging, 1915–1921. — Prohibition Amendment. — Webb-Kenyon Law. — Postal Regulations—Parcels Post. — Gunnoe Murder Case. — Strange Creek Case. — The Smith Gang, or the Lucky Thirteen. — A Railroad Theft. — Holly Griffith—West Virginia’s Most Noted Criminal. — A Moonlight Tragedy. — An Investigation I Feared.
20. 20.DAN CUNNINGHAM AND SOME STORIES FROM HIS SCRAP-BOOK — Dan Cunningham and His Slow Vengeance. — Another Case from Cunningham’s Scrap-Book. — A Typical West Virginia Mountain Abode. — A Horrible Crime. — Confessions of An Amateur Yegg. — Soldiers Turn Bandits. — A Peculiar Murder. — Mat Jarrell—Holly Griffith No. 2.
21. 21.CAPTURE OF WAYNE COUNTY DESPERADOES — Dan Cunningham’s Well Devised Plans Are Successful. — Vinson Shot Down. — Plans Well Laid for Arrest. — The Record of Joe Vinson. — The Capture of Robert Darrow, alias “Big East” — Restrictions Governing a Private Detective.
22. 22.TABLE OF CONTENTS
23. 23.CLENDENEN DETECTIVE SYSTEM — NOTICE

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