Gaslight and Fog
John Pemble: Sherlock Holmes, 26 January 2012
The Ascent of the Detective: Police Sleuths in Victorian and Edwardian England
by Haia Shpayer-Makov.
Oxford, 429 pp., £30, September 2011,978 0 19 957740 8 Show More
by Haia Shpayer-Makov.
Oxford, 429 pp., £30, September 2011,
“... he’s frequently consulted by Scotland Yard and repeatedly succeeds where it fails. This leads Haia Shpayer-Makov to read in the Holmes saga a powerful argument for privatising the police. Its message, she claims in The Ascent of the Detective, is unequivocal: ‘Effective crime investigation requires the input of the commercial sector.’ What’s so ... ”
