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• Police -- England -- London
• Police -- England -- Fiction

• The Man in the Queue (c1929), by Josephine Tey (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Clue of the Twisted Candle, by Edgar Wallace (Gutenberg text and audio)

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

• The Failure of Britain's Police: London and New York Compared (c2003), by Norman Dennis, George Erdos, and David Robinson, contrib. by George L. Kelling (PDF at Civitas)
• Racist Murder and Pressure-Group Politics (c2000), by Norman Dennis, George Erdos, and Ahmed Al-Shahi (PDF at Civitas)
• Chronicles of Bow Street Police-Office: With an Account of the Magistrates, "Runners", and Police, and a Selection of the Most Interesting Cases (2 volumes; London: Chapman and Hall, 1888), by Percy Fitzgerald (page images at HathiTrust)
• Scotland Yard: The Methods and Organisation of the Metropolitan Police (London: P. Marshall and Co., c1916), by George Dilnot (Gutenberg text)

• Cops and Bobbies: Police Authority in New York and London, 1830-1870 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1999), by Wilbur R. Miller (PDF from Ohio State University Press)

• An English Murder (author died in 1957 or 1958; book c1951), by Cyril Hare (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Suicide Excepted (author died in 1957 or 1958; book originally published 1939), by Cyril Hare (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Autobiography of an English Detective, by "Waters" (2 volumes; London: J. Maxwell and Co., 1863), by William Russell
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes; page images at HathiTrust
• The Mystery of the Downs (New York and London: J. Lane; Toronto: S. B. Gundy, 1918), by John R. Watson and Arthur J. Rees (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Recollections of a Detective Police-Officer, by "Waters" (first series; London: J. and C. Brown and Co., 1856), by William Russell (multiple formats at Google)
• Recollections of a Detective Police-Officer, by "Waters" (second series; London: W. Kent and Co., 1859), by William Russell (multiple formats at Google)
• The Ponson Case (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1937), by Freeman Wills Crofts (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Moonstone (novel), by Wilkie Collins
  • Gutenberg text
  • HTML at Bibliomania

• The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective, by Catherine Louisa Pirkis, illust. by Bernard Higham (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The Law and the Lady, by Wilkie Collins
  • HTML at digitalpixels.org
  • Gutenberg text