The First Wapping Street Detectives

The story revolves around three Police Offices, Bow Street, Shadwell, and Wapping in the year of 1811. It is a time of fear and high crime rates. England is still embroiled in the Napoleonic Wars, the Anglo-Russian War, The Anglo-Swedish War and the Peninsular War. A person could be hanged for stealing a penny and deported to Australia for as little as causing a fracas in the street. These were hard times indeed.