I've just finished reading a 1934 memoir that possesses one of the greatest titles to ever come across my desk: SAVAGE OF SCOTLAND YARD.  You can imagine my disappointment when it turned out to be written by one Superintendent Percy Savage.

There's rather more "Percy" than "Savage" in his book, though it has its moments, including a remarkable chapter on the "Crumbles murders" of 1924, a case where Savage was the first at the scene.  The overwhelming sense of the book, though, is that...