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Private security services

Here are entered works on organizations outside the public sector that provide systems, services, and staff for the protection of persons and property.

See also what's at your library, or elsewhere.

• Crime prevention
• Security systems

• Private military companies
• Police, Private

• Private security services -- Africa
• Private security services -- Iraq

• Private security companies
• Private security industry
• Protection services, Private
• Security companies, Private
• Security industry, Private
• Security services, Private

• Peace, Profit or Plunder? The Privitisation of Security in War-Torn African Societies, ed. by Jakkie Cilliers and Peggy Mason (PDF with comentary at issafrica.org)

• Private Security Contractors at War: Ending the Culture of Impunity (New York and Washington: Human Rights First, c2008), by Scott Horton, Kevin Lanigan, and Michael McClintock (PDF at Wayback Machine)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Empire's Labor: The Global Army That Supports U.S. Wars (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c2019), by Adam Moore (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Empire's Labor: The Global Army That Supports U.S. Wars (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c2019), by Adam Moore (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Two Evil Isms, Pinkertonism and Anarchism: By a Cowboy Detective Who Knows, As He Spent Twenty-Two Years in the Inner Circle of Pinkerton's National Detective Agency (Chicago: C. A. Siringo, c1915), by Charles A. Siringo (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Cowboy Detective: A True Story of Twenty-Two Years With a World-Famous Detective Agency (Chicago: W. B. Conkey Co., 1912), by Charles A. Siringo
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Lone Star Cowboy: Being Fifty Years Experience in the Saddle as Cowboy, Detective and New Mexico Ranger, on Every Cow Trail in the Wooly Old West (1919), by Charles A. Siringo
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Dain Curse (c1929), by Dashiell Hammett (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Red Harvest (c1929), by Dashiell Hammett (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• Murder in Black Letter (New York et al.: Macmillan, 1960), by Poul Anderson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Playback (c1958), by Raymond Chandler (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Cutting Room, by Robert Rosenberg (zipped HTML with commentary at Wayback Machine)
• The Long Goodbye (c1953), by Raymond Chandler (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Little Sister (c1949), by Raymond Chandler (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Lady in the Lake (c1943), by Raymond Chandler (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The High Window (c1942), by Raymond Chandler (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Farewell, My Lovely (c1940), by Raymond Chandler (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Big Sleep (c1939), by Raymond Chandler (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• The Crimson Hair Murders (Garden City, NY: Sun Dial Press, 1937), by Darwin L. Teilhet and Hildegarde Tolman Teilhet (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Feather Cloak Murders: The Second Adventure of the Baron von Kaz (Garden City, NY: Sun Dial Press, c1936), by Darwin L. Teilhet and Hildegarde Tolman Teilhet (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Maltese Falcon (c1930), by Dashiell Hammett (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• Under the Andes, by Rex Stout
  • HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text

• The Gracie Allen Murder Case (1938), by S. S. Van Dine (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• The Thin Man (c1934), by Dashiell Hammett (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Scarab Murder Case (1929), by S. S. Van Dine (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• The Greene Murder Case (c1928), by S. S. Van Dine, illust. by Lowell Leroy Balcolm (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The "Canary" Murder Case (c1927), by S. S. Van Dine (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Benson Murder Case (1926), by S. S. Van Dine, illust. by Herbert Morton Stoops (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Bishop Murder Case (1928/9), by S. S. Van Dine (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)

• The Fabulous Clipjoint, by Fredric Brown (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• A Texas Cowboy: or Fifteen Years on the Hurricane Deck of a Spanish Pony (with bibliograpical study; New York: W. Sloane Associates, c1950), by Charles A. Siringo, contrib. by J. Frank Dobie, illust. by Tom Lea (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Cowboy Detective: A True Story of Twenty-Two Years With a World-Famous Detective Agency (Chicago: W. B. Conkey Co., 1912), by Charles A. Siringo
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Lone Star Cowboy: Being Fifty Years Experience in the Saddle as Cowboy, Detective and New Mexico Ranger, on Every Cow Trail in the Wooly Old West (1919), by Charles A. Siringo
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Texas Cow Boy: or, Fifteen Years on the Hurricane Deck of a Spanish Pony (Chicago: M. Umbdenstock and Co., 1885), by Charles A. Siringo
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Texas Cow Boy: or, Fifteen Years on the Hurricane Deck of a Spanish Pony (Chicago: Siringo and Dobson, 1886), by Charles A. Siringo
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Speckled Band: An Adventure of Sherlock Holmes (London and New York: Samuel French, c1912), by Arthur Conan Doyle (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Big Four (New York: Dell Pub. Co., 1972), by Agatha Christie (Gutenberg text)
• The Red Triangle: Being Some Further Chronicles of Martin Hewitt, Investigator (New York: Books for Libraries Press, 1970), by Arthur Morrison (Gutenberg text and page images)
• Terror Keep (New York: Doubleday, Doran and Co., 1928), by Edgar Wallace (HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
• R. Holmes and Co.: Being the Remarkable Adventures of Raffles Holmes, Esq., Detective and Amateur Cracksman by Birth, by John Kendrick Bangs (Gutenberg text)
• More Work for the Undertaker (c1949), by Margery Allingham (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Coroner's Pidgin (c1945), by Margery Allingham (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Fashion in Shrouds (c1938), by Margery Allingham (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Case of the Late Pig (c1937), by Margery Allingham (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Dancers in Mourning (c1937), by Margery Allingham (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Mr. Campion, Criminologist (without "The Case of the Late Pig" (listed separately), c1937), by Margery Allingham (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Clouds of Witness (c1926; revised 1935), by Dorothy L. Sayers (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Murder Must Advertise (c1933), by Dorothy L. Sayers (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Sweet Danger (c1933), by Margery Allingham (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Five Red Herrings (c1931), by Dorothy L. Sayers (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Look to the Lady (c1931), by Margery Allingham (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Police at the Funeral (c1931), by Margery Allingham (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Crime at Black Dudley (c1929), by Margery Allingham (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (c1928), by Dorothy L. Sayers (Gutenberg text)
• The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (c1927), by Arthur Conan Doyle (HTML at Gutenberg Australia)
• Clouds of Witness (c1927), by Dorothy L. Sayers (Gutenberg text)
• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Arthur Conan Doyle (Gutenberg text and audio)
• Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (illustrated; New York: Harper and Bros., c1892), by Arthur Conan Doyle (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Chronicles of Martin Hewitt (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1896), by Arthur Morrison (page images at HathiTrust)
• His Last Bow, by Arthur Conan Doyle (HTML at Bibliomania)
• His Last Bow: A Reminiscence of Sherlock Holmes (New York: George H. Doran Co., 1917), by Arthur Conan Doyle (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle (Gutenberg text)
• Kauhun Laakso (The Valley of Fear in Finnish, in 2 volumes; Helsinki: Kustannusosakeyhtiö Kirja, 1915), by Arthur Conan Doyle, trans. by Timo Tuura
  • Volume I (Murhenäytelmä Birlstonen Kartanossa): Gutenberg text
  • Volume II (Salaseuralaiset): Gutenberg text
• Martin Hewitt, Investigator (1894), by Arthur Morrison (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Arthur Conan Doyle (Gutenberg text and audio)
• The Murder on the Links, by Agatha Christie (Gutenberg multiple formats)
• The Mysterious Affair at Styles, by Agatha Christie
  • HTML at Bartleby
  • Gutenberg text
• Neljän Merkit (The Sign of the Four in Finnish; Pori: Porilaisen Kirjapaino, 1894), by Arthur Conan Doyle, trans. by Ida Wickstedt (Gutenberg text)
• The Pursuit of the House-Boat (New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1897), by John Kendrick Bangs, illust. by Peter Newell (Gutenberg text)
• The Pursuit of the House-Boat (1919 Harper and Brothers edition), by John Kendrick Bangs (Gutenberg text)
• The Red Triangle: Being Some Further Chronicles of Martin Hewitt, Investigator (Boston: L. C. Page and Co., c1903), by Arthur Morrison (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Arthur Conan Doyle (Gutenberg text and audio)
• The Sign of Four, by Arthur Conan Doyle (HTML at Virginia)
• The Sign of the Four, by Arthur Conan Doyle (Gutenberg text and audio readings)
• A Study in Scarlet, by Arthur Conan Doyle (Gutenberg text and audio)
• Tales of Sherlock Holmes (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1915), by Arthur Conan Doyle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Trent's Last Case, by E. C. Bentley (Gutenberg text)
• Unnatural Death, by Dorothy L. Sayers (Gutenberg text and illusrated HTML)
• Vainottu (A Study in Scarlet in Finnish; Pori: G. Roneliuksen Kirjakauppa, 1908), by Arthur Conan Doyle, trans. by Timo Tuura (Gutenberg text)
• The Valley of Fear, by Arthur Conan Doyle (Gutenberg text)
• Whose Body? (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1923), by Dorothy L. Sayers (HTML with commentary at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Whose Body? (New York: Harper and Bros., c1923), by Dorothy L. Sayers (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Strong Poison (c1930), by Dorothy L. Sayers (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1926), by Agatha Christie
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Poirot Investigates (11-story UK edition; London: J. Lane, c1924), by Agatha Christie (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Secret Adversary, by Agatha Christie (Gutenberg text)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.