Excerpt from Professional Thieves and the Detectives: Containing Numerous Detective Sketches Collected From Private Records; With a Sketch of the Author, How He Became a Detective, &C IN again submitting to the public a volume of my Detective Experiences, a few words of introduction may not be out of place. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.