Memoirs of the Head of the Paris Secret Police

A dangerous criminal, who later became a detective, one of the most famous private investigators, literally the "father of criminal investigation" in France, describes in his life story how he got into the criminal world and was incarcerated multiple times. Dubbed the "king of risk" and later the "werewolf" for creating a special brigade of criminals, a "private police" that operated on the principle of "Only a criminal can fight crime," Vidocq recounts in his memoirs a multitude of plots of his "feats" and details of investigations that read like gripping detective stories.