amythebookbat's review
3.0
This book fulfills requirement #2- true crime for the 2014 eclectic reader challenge.
This book covers the history of the creation of Scotland Yard through the 1990's. I thought it was interesting and balanced the history of administration and the like with descriptions of some of the crimes they solved. I was more interested in the various crimes than the politics of running a police force, but I thought the author did a good job of blending the two. Occasionally I was a little confused by the dates as they were presented, but overall I think the book was well laid out. Strangely enough, I had just watched a couple shows on the Travel Channel that talked about some of the cases, so it was nice getting a little more information or a different point of view of those incidents. On a different note, I would have liked the print to have been a little larger and the pictures to be a little lighter/clearer, but that is probably a little picky on my part.
This book covers the history of the creation of Scotland Yard through the 1990's. I thought it was interesting and balanced the history of administration and the like with descriptions of some of the crimes they solved. I was more interested in the various crimes than the politics of running a police force, but I thought the author did a good job of blending the two. Occasionally I was a little confused by the dates as they were presented, but overall I think the book was well laid out. Strangely enough, I had just watched a couple shows on the Travel Channel that talked about some of the cases, so it was nice getting a little more information or a different point of view of those incidents. On a different note, I would have liked the print to have been a little larger and the pictures to be a little lighter/clearer, but that is probably a little picky on my part.
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