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Paddington Pollaky, Private Detective: The Mysterious Life and Times of the Real Sherlock Holmes

✍ Scribed by Kesselman, Bryan

Book ID
109101653
Publisher
The History Press
Year
2015
Tongue
English
Weight
2 MB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780750963312

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✦ Synopsis

Who was the Victorian super-sleuth 'Paddington' Pollaky? In reality, he was a contradiction: a man of mystery who tried to keep out of the limelight, while at times he craved recognition and publicity. He was a busybody, a meddler, yet someone whose heart was ultimately in the right place. Newspaper accounts detail his work as a private detective in London, his association with The Society for the Protection of Young Females, his foiling of those involved in sex-trafficking, and of his tracking down of abducted children. Themes that remain relevant in the twenty-first century. What was his involvement in the American Civil War? Why did he place cryptic messages in the agony column of The Times? And why were the newspapers so interested in this Hungarian detective and adventurer while the police thoroughly disapproved of him? In this first biography of this complex character, author Bryan Kesselman answers these questions, and examines whether it was Pollaky who provided...

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