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Reprint: local history publishers in Loughborough, Leicestershire and the Midlands

Reprint publish original local history books for Loughborough, Leicestershire, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Staffordshire and Warwickshire, with a catalogue of over 300 titles. We also reprint out-of-print and hard-to-find volumes of local interest, as well as postcards and calendars. Want to write a book of local interest? We can publish it for you.

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'Tanky' Smith: Leicester's First Private Detective

John Harrison

Francis 'Tanky' Smith was Leicester's first private detective after being a member of the Borough Police Force between 1840 and 1864. He achieved much success clearing up street crime in Victorian Leicester by adopting many and varied disguises and infiltrating local gangs.

During 1862, Tanky investigated the mysterious disappearance of a local aristocrat and discovered his body in Germany. He was richly rewarded for solving the mystery and had his son build Top Hat Terrace on London Road in … [more about this new title]

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