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Fifty Years a Detective: 35 Real Detective Stories

by Thomas FURLONG (1844 - 1918)

Moonshining in the Oil Regions

Hitherto unpublished facts connected with some of Mr. Furlong's greatest cases—Other interesting incidents of his long and strenuous career which really began on September 14, 1862, when he was detailed from his company, (Co. G., 1st Pennsylvania Rifles, better known as the Pennsylvania Bucktails) for special service. - Summary from the Preface

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Listen next episodes of Fifty Years a Detective: 35 Real Detective Stories:
A Crooked Doctor's Crime , A Dallas Murder Avenged , A Ruse that Worked , Arrest of Lawrence Poyneer , Battle with Would-Be Bandits , Capture of a Clever Swindler , Charlie Dalton, Outlaw , Conspirators Handed a Lemon , Conviction of John Collins , Decoying a Bad Man , Fight with a Maniac , Fred Erfert's Fall from Grace , George Hersogg's Downfall , Long Hunt for a Defaulter , Murder of Conductor Frazier , Running Down the Revolutionists , Solving a Trunk Mystery , Subduing a Notorious Bully , The Big Southwest Strike , The Capture of Wess Watts , The Glencoe Train Robbery , The Great Pittsburg Strike , The Rohan Express Robbery , The Toughest of Tough Towns , Ticket Forgers Run Down , Tragic Death of Bill Casey , Why I am Opposed to Hanging , Why I Oppose Rewards