Sergeant Verity and the Cracksman

William Clarence Verity is a sergeant in Scotland Yard''s ''Private Clothes Detail''. His beat is the underworld of Victorian London - as seething maze of alleys and bordellos, peopled with sneak thieves, thugs, murderers and their doxies.

From far-off Bengal there comes to Verity a tantalising hint of major crime in the making. Despite his superiors'' instructions, Verity determines to run the pl...