item: #1 of 25 id: 14332 author: Hanshew, Thomas W. title: Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces date: None words: 114768 flesch: 83 summary: It is an age-old maxim, is it not, Mr. Cleek, that two wrongs cannot by any possibility constitute a right? No sort of atonement is possible, is even worth the name, if it is backed up by deceit, Mr. Cleek. keywords: baron; bawdrey; bed; boy; captain; case; chap; cleek; count; course; day; dear; dollops; door; end; eyes; face; fact; father; fellow; friend; god; good; great; half; hand; head; help; henry; house; lady; left; letter; life; like; look; looking; lorne; major; man; mind; minutes; miss; moment; monsieur; morning; nant; narkom; night; open; place; poor; red; room; round; sir; son; sort; thing; time; van; voice; want; way; window; woman; world; yes; young cache: 14332.txt plain text: 14332.txt item: #2 of 25 id: 17180 author: Hanshew, Mary E. title: The Riddle of the Frozen Flame date: None words: 66593 flesch: 89 summary: Slowly it thinned out and the people turned once more into the Strand, sauntering along with their heads half the time over their shoulders, while Petrie stood and mopped his face and wondered what had become of Mr. Cleek, or if he had turned up in one of his many _aliases_, and he hadn't recognized him. And he hadn't seen Mr. Cleek go into the place, or Dollops either! keywords: bit; black; borkins; brellier; chap; cleek; dacre; doctor; dollops; door; eyes; face; flames; good; hand; head; know; like; look; man; merriton; moment; narkom; nigel; night; place; revolver; room; round; sir; sir nigel; sort; story; tell; ter; thing; time; toinette; voice; way; west; work; wynne; yer cache: 17180.txt plain text: 17180.txt item: #3 of 25 id: 23485 author: Crosland, T. W. H. (Thomas William Hodgson) title: The Old Man's Bag date: None words: 4445 flesch: 97 summary: Oh, you wicked old person, said the red policeman. We should always be kind, said the old woman, even to policemen, and as it is raining and I left my umbrella in an omnibus the other day, I will lend you my sunshade. keywords: bag; man; policeman; red; woman cache: 23485.txt plain text: 23485.txt item: #4 of 25 id: 29727 author: Saphro, Charles title: Zero Data date: None words: 8915 flesch: 81 summary: How about knocking off? Hmphf ... Johnson, Jason thought, was getting old. But Jason, the cop, was sweating it out ... searching for that fourth and final and all-knowing rule that would knock Lonnie's triple ethic for a gala loop. keywords: disarmer; fane; good; gov; grid; hand; jason; light; lonnie; man; moglaut; raichi; suit; time; tracer cache: 29727.txt plain text: 29727.txt item: #5 of 25 id: 30832 author: Garrett, Randall title: Nor Iron Bars a Cage.... date: None words: 17438 flesch: 93 summary: That was the system that Kleek--and a lot of other men on the Force swore by. No police force has enough men to enable a cop to be assigned to every known repeater and follow him night and day. keywords: brownlee; car; door; duke; face; good; grace; inspector; joey; kleek; look; man; nestor; right; smith; thing; time; way cache: 30832.txt plain text: 30832.txt item: #6 of 25 id: 31629 author: Dilnot, George title: Scotland Yard: The methods and organisation of the Metropolitan Police date: None words: 33106 flesch: 70 summary: He can read a finger-print as other men can read a letter, and has even, for the purposes of study, taken prints of the fingers of monkeys at the Zoo. These, then, are first called out, and other men are taken as occasion demands. keywords: business; case; chapter; chief; commissioner; constable; crime; criminal; day; department; detective; duty; end; finger; force; hand; inspector; investigation; little; london; man; men; office; person; police; prints; public; room; scotland; scotland yard; station; system; things; time; work; yard; years cache: 31629.txt plain text: 31629.txt item: #7 of 25 id: 35040 author: Flynt, Josiah title: Notes of an Itinerant Policeman date: None words: 46002 flesch: 67 summary: During the evening other men and boys came in, but they recognised that our early arrival entitled us to the good places, and they picked out the next best. Had it not been that questions on my part would have proven me to be a tenderfoot, which it was bad policy for one in my position to admit as possible, I should have made inquiries then and there, for it was plain that the push was an association that ought to interest me also; but all that I learned that night was that there was a gang of wild characters who were trying to run the Lake Shore Railroad, so far as Hoboland was concerned, according to their own wishes and interests, and that there were constant clashes between them and such men as were gathered together in the sand-house. keywords: business; class; country; crime; criminal; day; experience; force; good; kind; life; man; men; new; number; offenders; officer; people; place; police; prison; public; push; railroad; regard; states; thief; things; time; town; tramp; united; way; work; world; years; young cache: 35040.txt plain text: 35040.txt item: #8 of 25 id: 35650 author: Colquhoun, Patrick title: A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis Containing a Detail of the Various Crimes and Misdemeanors by which Public and Private Property and Security are, at Present, Injured and Endangered: and Suggesting Remedies for their Prevention date: None words: 175408 flesch: 49 summary: The Magistrates of the City of London form a body, perhaps the most _respectable_, and _independent_ of any in the world; but besides the unavoidable, important, and multiplied affairs of the Corporation, in attending the various Courts of the Lord-Mayor--Aldermen--Common Council--Common Hall--Wardmotes--Conservancy--Courts of Requests--Court of Orphans--and General and Quarter Sessions of the Peace, and Justice Hall at the Old Bailey, they have avocations and engagements in business, which must necessarily occupy their minds. Inconsistent italicizing of _l._, _s._, and _d._ has been normalized to italics. keywords: act; acts; attention; base; board; cap; cases; city; class; classes; coin; committee; community; convicts; copper; country; course; court; crimes; criminal; day; dealers; death; degree; effect; establishment; evil; expence; following; footnote; general; geo; goods; houses; iii; imprisonment; increase; instances; justice; labour; laws; life; london; lottery; magistrates; manner; means; metropolis; money; morals; nature; number; object; offences; offenders; officers; people; persons; place; plunder; police; police system; poor; present; property; public; punishment; purpose; receivers; regulations; relative; river; shall; society; species; state; stores; street; subject; system; time; trade; value; view; work; year; | | cache: 35650.txt plain text: 35650.txt item: #9 of 25 id: 38144 author: Bindloss, Harold title: The Mistress of Bonaventure date: None words: 117878 flesch: 80 summary: There are other men hurrying to sell. Beatrice Haldane always expressed herself quietly, but few men would have ventured to disregard her implied wishes, and I took the hint, fearing I had already said too much. keywords: answer; beasts; beatrice; bonaventure; boone; business; cattle; clear; come; cotton; country; daughter; day; dixon; door; eyes; face; fire; gaspard; girl; good; haldane; half; hand; head; help; hold; horse; lane; left; life; look; lucille; lucille haldane; mackay; man; men; miss; money; night; open; ormesby; place; prairie; question; rancher; redmond; rest; sally; sergeant; steel; stock; things; thorn; time; trail; trooper; voice; wagon; want; way; work cache: 38144.txt plain text: 38144.txt item: #10 of 25 id: 4075 author: Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville) title: The Intrusion of Jimmy date: None words: 70834 flesch: 92 summary: I wish I-- Did you ever hear about Jimmy and-- Mifflin was beginning, when the Odyssey of Jimmy Pitt was interrupted by the opening of the door and the entrance of Ulysses in person. It would be deuced bad form, of course, for Jimmy to assault his host, but could Jimmy be trusted to remember the niceties of etiquette? Why the devil she accepted you, I can't think, said Jimmy half to himself, stopping suddenly, and glaring across the table. keywords: boss; come; course; dat; dear; door; dreever; eyes; face; father; game; girl; good; great; hand; hargate; house; jimmy; lady; let; life; look; lordship; man; mceachern; mean; mifflin; mind; molly; moment; money; new; pitt; right; room; sir; sort; spennie; spike; thing; thomas; thought; time; uncle; want; way; york cache: 4075.txt plain text: 4075.txt item: #11 of 25 id: 43263 author: Snell, Roy J. (Roy Judson) title: The Arrow of Fire A Mystery Story for Boys date: None words: 45972 flesch: 96 summary: A Marked Man 120 XIV Johnny Scores a Knockdown 128 XV Johnny Finds a Man 137 XVI In his three years of wandering Johnny had known mystery, romance, and adventure aplenty. keywords: arrow; away; boy; bullets; car; city; dark; detective; door; drew; eyes; face; good; gun; hand; jimmie; johnny; judge; lane; man; mccarthey; men; mills; newton; night; place; police; radio; room; rosy; shot; squad; thing; time; way cache: 43263.txt plain text: 43263.txt item: #12 of 25 id: 46462 author: Russell, William title: Recollections of a Policeman date: None words: 113038 flesch: 70 summary: Mr. Wallace returned to the charge but the clerk became deaf, and went on with some writing, precisely as if Mr. William Wallace were invisible and inaudible. Having heard whispers of corruption in these departments, and difficulty of search, Mr. Wallace arms himself with letters from the Bishops of those places. keywords: bank; business; case; clerk; course; court; day; days; detective; door; doubt; england; evening; evidence; eyes; face; family; father; fellow; friend; gates; gentleman; good; great; grey; half; hand; home; house; jackson; lady; letter; levasseur; life; lloyd; london; look; man; men; mind; minutes; moment; money; morning; mrs; new; night; notes; number; office; officers; paper; person; place; police; pounds; present; prisoner; property; public; registrar; room; round; set; sir; street; thought; till; time; wallace; way; wife; william; wills; woman; words; years cache: 46462.txt plain text: 46462.txt item: #13 of 25 id: 46762 author: Mathews, Joanna H. (Joanna Hooe) title: Bessie and Her Friends date: None words: 63962 flesch: 84 summary: No; she's 'most a stranger to me, and the scared girl didn't mention no names, only said little Bessie was missin'. They talked a while longer of little Bessie and her pretty ways and her friend, the colonel; and then Mrs. Granby carried Willie and Jennie off to bed. keywords: aunt; aunt bessie; aunt patty; bessie; boy; bradford; children; day; dear; father; good; granby; jennie; lady; little; maggie; mamma; mother; mrs; patty; richards; ruthven; think; thought; time; uncle; way; willie cache: 46762.txt plain text: 46762.txt item: #14 of 25 id: 46812 author: Lee, W. L. Melville (William Lauriston Melville) title: A History of Police in England date: None words: 110210 flesch: 45 summary: Generally speaking, special constables have all the powers, and are subject to all the responsibilities, that ordinarily attach to police constables within their constablewicks. Justices who decided to take advantage of the Act were empowered to appoint a chief-constable, and delegate to him the power of appointing, directing and disciplining a sufficient number of police constables, the expense of the force to be charged against the general county rate.[207] Adjoining shires were permitted to unite for the common purpose of policing the larger area; and if any county refused, as a whole, to avail itself of the facilities now afforded, any division of that county might maintain a separate police force; provision was also made for the voluntary amalgamation of existing borough forces with any country constabulary, that might thereafter be appointed in the immediate neighbourhood. keywords: account; act; authority; bow; case; century; chief; city; committee; common; constables; constabulary; control; county; course; court; crime; criminal; day; duties; duty; england; english; extent; fact; following; general; good; government; hand; house; justices; king; law; life; london; london police; lord; magistrates; maintenance; man; means; men; new; night; number; offences; offenders; officers; order; parish; peace; people; persons; police; police act; police administration; police constables; police district; police force; police officers; police system; power; present; property; protection; public; punishment; result; said; sir; state; statute; street; time; watch; watchmen; way; work; years; | | cache: 46812.txt plain text: 46812.txt item: #15 of 25 id: 46846 author: Griffiths, Arthur title: Mysteries of Police and Crime, Vol. 1 (of 3) date: None words: 146405 flesch: 67 summary: Other police officers of the central brigades superintend the street traffic, but not so successfully as do our police; indeed, parties of the French police [Illustration: PARISIAN PRISON WARDERS.] Detection depends largely, of course, upon the knowledge, astuteness, ingenuity, and logical powers of police officers, although they find many independent and often unexpected aids, as we shall see. keywords: account; arrest; bank; benson; body; box; brother; business; case; character; charge; chief; city; come; country; course; court; crime; criminal; day; days; death; detection; detective; door; doubt; evidence; fact; family; father; force; fraud; french; friends; general; gentleman; good; guilt; half; hand; head; home; house; illustration; john; judge; justice; lady; lafarge; law; leave; left; letter; life; london; lord; madame; man; marie; men; money; morning; mother; mrs; murder; new; night; notes; number; officer; order; paris; pay; people; person; place; point; police; police officer; prison; prisoner; property; public; robbery; room; search; second; set; sir; story; street; strong; suspicion; system; thieves; thought; till; time; town; trial; vidocq; way; wife; witnesses; woman; work; years; york; young cache: 46846.txt plain text: 46846.txt item: #16 of 25 id: 47445 author: Wooldridge, Clifton R. (Clifton Rodman) title: Twenty Years a Detective in the Wickedest City in the World date: None words: 165680 flesch: 72 summary: It was charged that a coterie of Chicago men engaged in making and selling these devices had formed a trust and had for years robbed, swindled and corrupted the enlisted men of the army and navy through loaded dice, hold-outs, magnetized roulette wheels and other crooked gambling apparatus. There is little excuse, however, for Chicago men and women allowing themselves to be talked out of money for charity. keywords: agency; american; arrest; bank; bell; big; boy; bucket; building; business; cards; case; cent; chance; check; chicago; children; cities; city; class; co.; companies; company; concerns; country; course; court; crime; criminal; cure; day; days; death; detective; detective wooldridge; dollars; dora; end; evidence; eyes; face; fact; finger; following; form; fraud; gambler; gambling; game; george; good; graft; great; guarantee; guerin; half; hand; head; hold; home; house; husband; illustration; investment; john; jury; kind; law; left; letter; life; love; making; man; marriage; matrimonial; matter; mcdonald; means; men; methods; mike; money; mrs; names; new; number; office; officers; open; order; page; paper; pay; penitentiary; people; persons; place; police; print; prison; public; rich; right; room; safe; second; shop; state; stock; story; street; sullivan; system; things; thousands; time; trust; united; victims; way; wife; woman; wooldridge; work; world; worth; years; york; young cache: 47445.txt plain text: 47445.txt item: #17 of 25 id: 4786 author: Franck, Harry Alverson title: Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers date: None words: 61711 flesch: 72 summary: Before and beyond were pounding rock drills, belching locomotives, there arose the rattle and bump of long trains of flat-cars on many tracks, the crash of falling boulders, the snort of the straining steam-shovels heaping the cars high with earth and rock, everywhere were groups of little men, some working leisurely, some scrambling down into the rocky bed of the canal or dodging the clanging trains, all far below and stretching endless in either direction, while over all the scene hovered a veritable Pittsburg of smoke. Some one might run away with the Administration Building on the edge of the Pacific and the telephone wires be buzzing for me--with the sad result that a few days later there would be posted in Zone police stations where all who turned the leaves might read: Special Order No. .... keywords: afternoon; american; ancon; bit; black; boss; canal; canal zone; case; census; city; clothes; come; corporal; cut; day; days; duty; empire; end; evening; eyes; face; gatun; good; government; half; hand; hill; hour; house; isthmus; jungle; labor; land; left; life; line; mac; man; men; morning; native; negro; negroes; new; night; panama; place; police; policeman; railroad; room; set; spanish; station; things; time; town; train; water; way; west; white; work; world; years; zone cache: 4786.txt plain text: 4786.txt item: #18 of 25 id: 48313 author: Johnson, Rossiter title: Phaeton Rogers: A Novel of Boy Life date: None words: 74232 flesch: 87 summary: At last Ned got out of patience. A few rods farther on, we met Ned Rogers walking toward home. keywords: aunt; away; box; boys; course; day; dollars; door; end; father; fay; fire; going; good; ground; hand; holman; home; house; invention; jack; jimmy; kite; look; men; mercy; monkey; ned; office; patsy; people; phaeton; red; right; roe; saw; string; thing; thought; time; town; want; water; way; work cache: 48313.txt plain text: 48313.txt item: #19 of 25 id: 55847 author: Holmes, Thomas title: Known to the Police date: None words: 73838 flesch: 76 summary: To poor old women with chilly bones and thin blood, who especially need the glow and warmth of a substantial fire, the lack of coal constitutes almost, and in many cases quite, tragedy. The boots and shoes seemed to know all about it, and to resent the slight inflicted on them; henceforth even the shambling feet of poor old women were to know them no more. keywords: act; boots; boy; case; children; coal; court; day; days; death; door; good; half; help; home; hope; house; husband; jonathan; life; london; look; magistrate; man; matter; means; money; mother; pay; people; police; poor; prison; prisoners; public; room; shillings; streets; things; thought; time; week; widow; wife; women; work; years; young cache: 55847.txt plain text: 55847.txt item: #20 of 25 id: 59323 author: Marks, Winston K. (Winston Kinney) title: Bleedback date: None words: 8051 flesch: 89 summary: I left Calvin Baxter pale and motionless as some great statue supine amid the tangle of plasma, glucose and saline hoses, under his transparent oxygen tent. And by the time the ambulance arrived I was ready to admit that if the injury were an accident, Calvin Baxter had contrived to conceal its source. keywords: baxter; brother; calvin; durstine; eyes; holes; leo; man; people; right; thorsen; time cache: 59323.txt plain text: 59323.txt item: #21 of 25 id: 59516 author: Stearns, Charles A. title: The Scamperers date: None words: 5944 flesch: 90 summary: Wellesley slung his space kit over his shoulder and followed, with his hand on Joseph's collar. the scamperers BY CHARLES A. STEARNS _Wellesley was ordered to check on deviants or mutants. keywords: aidennsport; door; feet; joseph; ophir; sealilly; swamp; time; wellesley cache: 59516.txt plain text: 59516.txt item: #22 of 25 id: 59652 author: Biggle, Lloyd, Jr. title: Cronus of the D. F. C. date: None words: 6402 flesch: 93 summary: I put in a hectic day of trudging through apartment buildings and squabbling with superintendents, but we found it the next morning, in a stubby little seven-story building on South Central. It was one of those apartment buildings that went up way back in 1990, when the city decided it couldn't afford the luxury of open spaces and opened part of old Central Park to apartment buildings. keywords: apartment; captain; cronus; gregory; room; stella; time; walker cache: 59652.txt plain text: 59652.txt item: #23 of 25 id: 60955 author: Lafferty, R. A. title: The Polite People of Pudibundia date: None words: 3369 flesch: 89 summary: At first Marlow was shocked by the appearance of all the females he met on Pud. His host also assumed the name of Marlow out of politeness. keywords: marlow; mitzi; politeness; pudibundia cache: 60955.txt plain text: 60955.txt item: #24 of 25 id: 62255 author: Jameson, Malcolm title: Stellar Showboat date: None words: 9695 flesch: 85 summary: Have you a vacant room where I can hang out for the remainder of the voyage? Yes. Neville did another lightning change--back to Special Investigator Billy Neville of the I.P.--uniform and all. Why--oh, why--do they let you rookies in here to bother me? Sir, said Neville stiffly, I am no rookie. keywords: carstairs; colonel; good; lunko; man; neville; pallas; police; right; room; ship; showboat; steward; time; way cache: 62255.txt plain text: 62255.txt item: #25 of 25 id: 6569 author: Mathews, Joanna H. (Joanna Hooe) title: Bessie Bradford's Prize date: None words: 57057 flesch: 74 summary: Poor little Lena! Poor little Lena! keywords: bessie; boy; boys; colonel; come; dear; doctor; father; good; hannah; lena; letter; lewis; maggie; mind; miss; money; mrs; neville; percy; room; rush; school; seabrooke; sister; tell; thought; time; trevor; uncle; way cache: 6569.txt plain text: 6569.txt