Forty years among robbers and killers

“Forty years among robbers and killers" are the memoirs of the first head of the St. Petersburg detective police Ivan Dmitrievich Putilin (1830-1893), the genius of the Russian investigation, which at one time became a legend man. Everyone appreciated the talented detective: the authorities - for high professionalism, a simple people - for the desire to selflessly help those who got into trouble, the criminal world - for honesty and exceptional decency even at that time.
The memoirs of the head of the detective police were light in 1889, shortly before the death of the author himself - Ivan Dmitrievich Putilin. Since that time, the book was a myriad of times reprinted - up to the Great October Revolution. This publication included twenty interesting stories