If anyone out there is obsessed with the history of San Francisco, here’s another book you need. Short, documented accounts of criminal behavior from pre-gold rush days up to the 1930s give a different insight to the growth and development of the city and its police force. As seen in retrospect from a lawman’s point of view, some of these cases make evident shabby and sometimes outrageous resolutions to past crimes, but that, too, is part of the book’s attraction. Though not an adventur
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