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The Secret Service of the Post-Office Department; As Exhibited in the Wonderful Exploits of Special Agents or Inspectors in the Detection, Pursuit, and Capture of Depredators Upon the Mails, with a Complete Description of the Many Means and Complic

The Secret Service of the Post-Office Department; As Exhibited in the Wonderful Exploits of Special Agents or Inspectors in the Detection, Pursuit, and Capture of Depredators Upon the Mails, with a Complete Description of the Many Means and Complic


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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: to achieve in it even a tolerable degree of success. Men eminently fitted to shine in the pulpit, at the bar, or on the bench, might fail lamentably in efforts to gather up and interpret the clues that lead through labyrinthine windings to the secrets hidden in the mind of the wily criminal. In addition to a kind of clairvoyant insight into the operations of a guilty soul, a master in the art of detection must possess a keenness of attention that permits nothing, however minute, to escape its observation, a sagacity in construing the meaning of facts that rarely blunders, a resolution that never falters, a perseverance that never tires, and often a courage that triumphs over dangers by a quality of transcendent heroism. A character so well furnished with the .essential attributes of a detective usually finds more congenial and remunerative employment. Many who seek the places with most unreasonable urgency, and with the most formidable array of indorsements, are persons that have fallen to the ground in the battle of life, unable to maintain a foothold under a system of free competition. If successful in securing admission to the ranks, they soon discover their incapacity, and, conscious of total unfitness for the work, bend their available energies to the task of clinging as long as possible to the emoluments of the office. Gradually they drop off from sheer lack of strength to hold on longer. Prior to the recent great improvement in the personnel of the force, a few agents of rare gifts and great experience actually performed nine-tenths of the important labor. This chapter will contain a sketch of the early efforts, discouragements, and triumphs of one of the most remarkable men who have ever done good and valiant service for the post-office department ? Mr. John B. Furay...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217766197
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 158
  • Spine Width: 9 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217766196
  • Publisher Date: 14 May 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 295 gr


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