Among Robbers and Murderers. Memoirs of a Head of the Detective Police

How to identify a killer using logic, quick thinking, provocation, and attention to detail? How did forensics develop, and how was the investigation conducted? The legendary chief of the detective police of St. Petersburg Ivan Putilin—who became a defining figure, a symbol of selfless devotion to his calling—tells about the most interesting and vivid cases he investigated during his forty-year career.