On Secret Service (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Detective-Mystery Stories Based on Real Cases Solved by Government AgentsBy William Nelson Taft
Length10h 43m
About this audiobook
On Secret Service presents a series of briskly narrated episodes drawn from the world of federal investigation, espionage, and counter-criminal work. Rather than treating detection as merely a puzzle, the book emphasizes procedure, patience, disguise, surveillance, and the moral drama of public duty. Its prose belongs to the early twentieth-century tradition of documentary adventure: vivid, economical, and shaped by the era's fascination with modern bureaucracy, national security, and the hidden mechanisms by which the state protects itself. William Nelson Taft wrote at a moment when the American Secret Service occupied a powerful place in the public imagination, associated not only with presidential protection but with counterfeiters, smugglers, conspirators, and wartime intrigue. His interest in official detection reflects a broader journalistic and popular-literary appetite for "inside" accounts of institutions normally closed to ordinary citizens. The book's authority derives less from ornate style than from its confident command of case-based narration and institutional detail. Readers interested in the history of detective writing, government service, or early modern espionage will find On Secret Service especially rewarding. It offers suspense without sensational excess and reveals how civic order is maintained through intelligence, discipline, and often anonymous courage.
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- Hand‐picked Memorable Quotes shine a spotlight on moments of literary brilliance.
Audiobook details
GenreTrue Crime
Length10 hrs 43 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 25, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
25XIV
2A FLASH IN THE NIGHT
26WAH LEE AND THE FLOWER OF HEAVEN
3II
27XV
4THE MINT MYSTERY
28THE MAN WITH THREE WIVES
5III
29XVI
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6THE YPIRANGA CASE
30AFTER SEVEN YEARS
7IV
31XVII
8THE CLUE ON SHELF 45
32THE POISON-PEN PUZZLE
9PHYLLIS DODGE, SMUGGLER EXTRAORDINARY
33XVIII
10A MATTER OF RECORD
34THIRTY THOUSAND YARDS OF SILK
11VII
35XIX
12THE SECRET STILL
36THE CLUE IN THE CLASSIFIED COLUMN
13VIII
37XX
14THE TAXICAB TANGLE
38IN THE SHADOW OF THE CAPITOL
15IX
39XXI
16A MATCH FOR THE GOVERNMENT
40A MILLION-DOLLAR QUARTER
17X
41XXII
18THE GIRL AT THE SWITCHBOARD
42"THE LOOTING OF THE C. T. C."
19XI
43XXIII
20"LOST—$100,000!"
44THE CASE OF MRS. ARMITAGE
21XII
45XXIV
22"THE DOUBLE CODE"
46FIVE INCHES OF DEATH
23XIII
47THE END
24THE TRAIL OF THE WHITE MICE
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