'Paddington' Pollaky, Private Detective
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'Paddington' Pollaky, Private Detective

The Mysterious Life and Times of the Real Sherlock Holmes

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
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  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

'Paddington' Pollaky, Private Detective

The Mysterious Life and Times of the Real Sherlock Holmes

About this book

'Paddington' Pollaky, Victorian super-sleuth, was a contradiction: a man of mystery who tried to keep out of the limelight, while at times craving recognition and publicity. He was a busybody, a meddler, yet someone whose heart was ultimately in the right place. Newspaper accounts detail his work as a private detective in London, his association with the Society for the Protection of Young Females, his foiling of those involved in sex-trafficking and of his dogged search for abducted children – issues still sadly relevant today. In this first biography, author Bryan Kesselman investigates Pollaky's involvement in the American Civil War, his placing of cryptic messages in the agony columns of The Times, and examines whether it was Pollaky who provided the inspiration for the literary greats Hercule Poirot and Sherlock Holmes.

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Information

Publisher
The History Press
Year
2015
Print ISBN
9780750959742
eBook ISBN
9780750963312
Topic
History
Subtopic
Historical Biographies
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Dedication
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. Contents
  6. Introduction
  7. 1 In Hungary
  8. 2 Arrival in England
  9. 3 ‘Inspector Bucket’, Lord Lytton, Lord Derby, Lord Palmerston, the Road House Murder and Whicher
  10. 4 Marriage One
  11. 5 Pollaky Alone
  12. 6 Confederate Correspondence
  13. 7 Marriage Two
  14. 8 Sir Richard Mayne
  15. 9 1862 Naturalisation Application – ‘It would be monstrous’
  16. 10 The Casebook of Ignatius Pollaky
  17. 11 An Interview with Pollaky
  18. 12 Dickens, Lewis Carroll, W.S. Gilbert, and Others
  19. 13 Retirement
  20. 14 Naturalisation
  21. 15 Death
  22. I ‘Small-Beer Chronicles’ (Dickens)
  23. II ‘The Agony Column’
  24. III ‘Polly Perkins of Paddington Green’
  25. IV The Colonel’s Song etc. (Gilbert and Sullivan)
  26. Bibliography and Sources
  27. Plates
  28. Copyright