Whitechapel's Sherlock Holmes

Pen & Sword Books Ltd

Whitechapel's Sherlock HolmesThe Casebook of Fred Wensley OBE, KPM Victorian Crime Buster\nAuthor(s): Dick Kirby\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Pen & Sword True Crime\nISBN-13: 9781399078702, 978-1399078702\nSynopsis\nThe story of Fred Wensley, a Somerset gardener who joined the Metropolitan Police in 1888 and retired, forty-one years later as Chief Constable of the CID, is an extraordinary one.\n\nAfter an abortive attempt to catch Jack the Ripper by nailing strips of bicycle tyres to the soles of his boots, Wensley got stuck into arresting the neer-do-wells of Whitechapel, where he would spend twenty-five years of his service.\n\nWithin months of joining the CID, Wensley, while off duty, arrested a double murderer. He smashed the murderous Bessarabian and Odessa gangs, brought the Vendetta gang to book when, brandishing revolvers they tried to storm a police court, played a decisive part in the Siege of Sidney Street and crea.