Sergeant Verity, of Scotland Yard's Private Clothes Detail sets out to rescue a young English girl from an unscrupulous Indian mutineer and to retrieve the priceless diamond symbolizing England's sovereignty over India...
Endearing, if bumbling, investigator Sergeant William Clarence Verity becomes embroiled in a case of blackmail that takes him to palatial estates, to houses of questionable repute, and to the cold English seas off Plymouth...
William Clarence Verity, Sergeant in 'A' Division of the Metropolitan Police, has seen most of the horrors of the nineteenth century, from the stews of Seven Dials to the prisons of the maharajahs. Now he is sent to the United States, to a nation on ...
The police thought the jewel was priceless -- only the thief knew its true value!...
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-of...
In his sixth adventure, Sergeant Verity returns to London's 1860s underworld of alleys and brothels, peopled with sneak thieves, dancing girls, thugs, murderers and pimps. From Newgate Gaol come sinister rumours of a man to be hanged for a murder he...