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Explores Henry Slater’s rise and fall as Britain’s leading private detective, revealing the golden age of detection and its dark side. From his offices at Basinghall Street in the City of London, Henry Slater presided over Britain's best-known private detective agency, king of all he surveyed. In the late Victorian era, and into the twentieth century, his name was synonymous with the Golden Age of private detection; he was a truly modern operator, utilising the press and technology, and creating innovative publicity campaigns to keep his agency in the public eye. One of the key skills of the private detective was the ability to make friends - to infiltrate the lives of individuals, and t...
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