Criminal Investigation Department of Scotland Yard

Connections

Connections Sort descending	Author name	Excerpt
Characters	Lettice Cooper	This novel touches on the squatters theme which LC had used in Desirable Residence. Here the police receive an anonymous tip-off that unusual behaviour is going on at two large, dilapidated and divided Victorian...
Employer	Jan Struther	In 1919 she got a job as a part-time secretary with Scotland Yard . When her superior noticed her typing a court report full of four-letter words he chivalrously took it away from her and...
Literary Setting	Margery Allingham	In The Snapdragon and the C. I. D., Albert Campion tracks down the mystery in an old people's home, and sees there face after familiar face. They were old acquaintances of the dizzy nineteen-thirties...
Textual Production	Marie Belloc Lowndes	MBL 's spy novel Good Old Anna appeared in print only after Scotland Yard had attempted to block its publication because it described the construction of a home-made bomb. Lowndes, Marie Belloc. A Passing World. Macmillan, 1948. 25
Textual Production	Marie Belloc Lowndes	She had taken considerable trouble to find out what a bomb was made of, but having written this up she one day, when very tired, left her manuscript behind on the luggage rack of a...
Textual Production	Ngaio Marsh	NM published her first detective novel, A Man Lay Dead, with a traditional English country-house-party setting, introducing her series protagonist, Chief Detective-Inspector Roderick (or Rory) Alleyn of the CID . Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Timeline

1878

Barrister Howard Vincent was appointed the first Director of the Criminal Investigation Department of Scotland Yard , in London.

Briggs, John et al. Crime and Punishment in England: An Introductory History. St Martin’s, 1996.

216

Howe, Sir Ronald. The Story of Scotland Yard: A History of the C.I.D. from the earliest times to the Present Day. Arthur Barker, 1965.

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23 December 1918

Under a Police Order, the Voluntary Women's Patrols became a section of the LondonMetropolitan Police ; they advised young girls, investigated sex offences, and did plain-clothes work.

Weeks, Jeffrey. Sex, Politics and Society: The Regulation of Sexuality since 1800. Longman, 1981.

215

Chisholm, Hugh, editor. Encyclopædia Britannica. 12th ed., Encyclopædia Britannica Company, 1922, 3 vols.

3: 1045

British Book News. British Council.

(1952): 412

1932

After thirteen years as a member of the Metropolitan Police and ten as a member of the Criminal Investigation Department , Lilian Wyles became the first female Chief Inspector.

“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.

Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

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