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History, General Nonfiction, True Crime
Robert Marsden was a real-life detective officer who served in the Liverpool City Police Force during the middle of the nineteenth century. His investigations took him from the dark and squalid courts of Liverpool's infamous districts of Vauxhall and Scotland Road to the streets of New York City. Detective Marsden's story is told through the newspaper reports and police records in which he appears. This gives us a fascinating glimpse of Victorian Liverpool - a city known both as 'the Gateway to the British empire' and the 'black spot on the River Mersey'.