Private Eye
The world is full of people who commit brutal murders of their fellow human beings with such genius that it haunts everyone who comes across them. Some of them are so greatly devised that even the experts get frustrated when it comes to solving them.
To the avid reader of books a genre that has been written extensively on is Murder Mysteries and some of these are based on real stories. Usually when such a murder occurs where someone has died in such mysterious circumstances, that even the police are stumped the family members of the deceased tend to hire a private investigator who is usually an ex-cop or ex-military.
These private investigators hunt down these demented individuals who have killed another human with a well thought out plan, which we know as murder.
Private Investigators have been around for quite some time in fact the first ever properly owned investigating agency was created around 1833 by an ex-soldier and criminal of the name Eugene Vidocq. Mr. Vidocq was a Frenchman who revolutionised the way criminology and crime scene forensic occurred. It was due to him that private investigators actually became a thing. Since he was an ex-soldier he had extensive skills in military combat and gathering intelligence. Across the sea in the U.K a retired Metropolitan policeman under the name of Charles Frederick Fields opened up the first private investigation office in 1952.
Mr. Fields was an acquaintance of Mr. Charles Dickens. Indeed private investigators had such an amazing reputation that characters like Sherlock Holmes were created on the same premise as them.
Private detectives and investigators became so famous and then infamous especially in the case of the U.S where the Pinkerton agency has almost a legendary reputation. The Pinkerton’s specialised in any and all forms of investigation if it was tracking someone down to provide security for union meetings these guys had it all. The Pinkertons hired people and became such a problem during union riots that anti-pinkerton laws were created to stop them from being hired.
The reason why private investigators gained a good start in the footnotes of history, was because the police force were not as adept at their job as the private investigators were, and many people would hire investigators when they believed the police could not do the job properly, or were simply just not interested.
Noble Private Investigators:
Alan Pinkerton:
He was born in Scotland to William Pinkerton and Isabel McQueen in 1819. In 1842 he moved to the U.S were he settled in Chicago. He had his first taste of playing PI when he was out looking for trees and came across a gang of counterfeiters who he informed on to the sheriff. Later on 1849 he became the first police detective of Chicago and then later on formed what is world famous “The Pinkertons National Detective Agency.” Alan was even a spy during the civil war. Spying against the confederates.
Charles Everette Lively:
He was born in 1887 in West Virginia and was originally a miner. He later joined up with the Baldwin-Felts detective agency who were famous for the murder of Police Chief Sid Hatfield. Mr. Charles Everette being a member of the United Mine Workers of America would travel from town to town as a worker and would spy on the miners and report their activities to his bosses. He was later in life charged with the murder of chief of police Sid Hatfield who was shot in a shootout with Baldwin-Felts agents and was later acquitted of murder.
Ignatius Pollaky:
One of the first true detectives. He was born in Hungary but moved to London in exile. He opened up a detective agency called “Pollaky’s Private Inquiries Office”. His first case was spying on Confederate soldiers buying supplies in London. However, he specialized in Election, divorce or libel cases which he often advertised for. He was an avid columnist and wrote to the daily times a lot. He was a member of the famous X division of the London Police. Pollaky died in 1918 in Brighton.
The Lyme Regis Murders
by author
Andrew Segal
Three little piggies going to market each,
Changed their minds, went down to the beach.
A great big rock then cracked each head,
And, left the three of them, all stone dead. R.A.
Three found dead, throwing a quiet seaside town into turmoil.
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The shoreline was deserted apart from the four individuals cavorting close to the water’s edge. A single gull wheeled overhead screaming out what might have been a warning, had anyone understood, or been prepared to listen. Offshore the swell rose and fell ominously, a restless movement like the bulk of a heaving whale, as it too whispered a plea for mercy.
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Now For Some Spy Stories…
Now apart from listing a few of the world’s most well-known detectives, let’s move on to some of the most mind boggling true spy stories out there.
Melta Norwood:
On the 11th of September 1999, a frail old white-haired woman stands in front of her house in Bexleyheath, London in her hands is a speech she had written earlier. In this speech, this old lady confesses to the British public and the whole world that she had been passing nuclear secrets to the Soviet Intelligence Agency called KGB (now FSB) for 40 years. She had worked at the British Non-Ferrous Metals research Association as a secretary and had passed on all the secrets the British government had on the nuclear deterrents they were building.
The Cambridge Five:
Donald Maclean Guy Burgess, Kim Philby and Anthony Blunt were members of the most extensive, well thought out and planned spy network. Embedded within the British Military and essentially the whole establishment these four along with another fifth member were recruited by the KGB at Cambridge University. They defected and embedded themselves into the British establishment and leaked all the important information to Moscow. The counter espionage division slowly clamped down on two members Blunt and Maclean but Philby who was the head of the unit told them about the investigation. These two disappeared and were later found in Moscow five years later. The damage done by the five men took years to fix. The fifth member to this day is unknown.
George Blake:
A World War 2 veteran this supposed hero fought with the Dutch underground during the Second World War and then went to work for MI6’s predecessor the Special Operations Executive. He was captured during the Korean War and imprisoned until his release in 1953. The government decided to give him a special mission. Go to East Berlin and recruit the soviets as agents for the British crown. What the British didn’t know was that he himself had become a double agent and led to the capture of over 400 British undercover agents in Berlin. Later on a Soviet defector named him and he was imprisoned but that didn’t stop him. In 1966 he escaped and went to Russia.
Suave Sidney Riley:
Some believe him to be the first actual British spy and inspiration for the famous Bond character. Sidney was born in Russia faked his own death and fled to the U.K. Here he managed to maneuverer himself into the high society of Britain’s elite and even became a spy for England and Japan. He was famous for seducing the wife of a Russian minister to gain access to German weapon shipments and even stole and even acted as a pilot at an airshow in Germany to steal a motor. He even tried to assassinate Lenin but he was betrayed by loyalists. He was shot dead in 1925 a true spy legend.
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