The Dorrington Deed Box

von Arthur Morrison

150 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

A detective's papers should reveal how crimes were solved; these records expose something more troubling. Horace Dorrington is a private inquiry agent of formidable ability, yet his methods and purposes are rarely governed by justice. Told through first-person narration and reconstructed case histories, this connected collection turns documents, notes, newspaper cuttings and investigative dockets into evidence of both criminal deception and the investigator's own moral ambiguity. From confidential offices in London, Dorrington enters cases shaped by fraud, blackmail, suspicious deaths and missing or valuable property. Deduction and material clues matter, but so do surveillance, disguise and psychological manipulation. Concealed identities and staged incidents repeatedly unsettle appearances, while seemingly supernatural or inexplicable events test the boundary between rational investigation and carefully engineered deceit. Dorrington can penetrate such schemes because he understands their logic-and because he is prepared to exploit the same dubious circumstances he has been engaged to examine. Across these private detective stories, each inquiry adds another layer to a documentary portrait of a man who may expose wrongdoing without standing apart from it. Sporting and betting schemes, commercial speculation, antiquarian mysteries and guarded secrets provide varied ground for investigations in which the search for truth is inseparable from questions of identity, advantage and justice. The casebook form invites close attention to every fragment of testimony and every calculated omission. This book was out of print for decades and is now republished by Alpha Editions. It has been restored for today's and future generations. This edition is not just a reprint - it's a collector's item and a cultural treasure.

• ISBN: 9789378419690
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 28.11.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Alpha Edition