A special agent of the Post-Office Department recounts real cases from his notebooks of the 1840s and 1850s: rifled letters, missing bank notes, dishonest postmasters, stagecoach robberies and the patient detective work that exposed the guilty. Along the way he explains the laws and workings of the early American mail service.
Some of the earliest American true-crime writing, a vivid view of detection before the professional police. Download the free EPUB.