Forty years among robbers and killers. Putilin I.D.

The first head of the St. Petersburg detective police, Ivan Dmitrievich Putilin (1830-1893), became the sign figure of the Russian investigation. He knew how to determine the killer by the smallest clues and bring the matter to the end, even if it came to a dead end. In his memoirs, Putilin addresses interesting and shocking cases from working practice.

The book includes 22 detective stories written in collaboration with publicist M. Shevlyakov, as well as "Essay on some types of theft in St. Petersburg."

The collection precedes the article by Anatoly Koni (1844-1927)-prosecutor and judicial speaker of the Russian Empire.