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Fifty Years a Detective: 35 Real Detective Stories

by Thomas FURLONG (1844 - 1918)

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Hitherto unpublished facts connected with some of Mr.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 Remarkable Case , 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 , Moonshining in the Oil Regions , Murder of Conductor Frazier , Running Down the Revolutionists , Solving a Trunk Mystery , Subduing a Notorious Bully , The Big Cotton Swindle , The Big Southwest Strike , The Capture of Wess Watts , The Glencoe Train Robbery , The Great Pittsburg Strike , The Preller Murder Case Part 1 , The Preller Murder Case Part 2 , The Rohan Express Robbery , The Toughest of Tough Towns , Ticket Forgers Run Down , Tracing Train Wreckers , Tragic Death of Bill Casey , Why I am Opposed to Hanging , Why I Oppose Rewards