Thursday, April 9, 2009

Inspector Bucket



[From "Dickens Gallery," a cigarette card series packaged with Cope's Cigarettes, n. d.]

Inspector Bucket speaks the above words in Chapter 24 of Bleak House (1853). Bucket has no first name and a wife whom we never see. These details and his genial, deceptively casual manner make him the precursor of another great detective, Lieutenant Columbo of the LAPD.

Dickens Gallery (New York Public Library Digital Gallery)

By Michael Leddy at 9:49 AM

3 comments:

  1. Your daughter rachel!April 10, 2009 6:08 PM

    I love the blurb at the bottom! I might make business cards for myself just like this.

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  2. Michael LeddyApril 10, 2009 6:46 PM

    I'd like one for my collection, RL.

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  3. Steaming PileApril 13, 2009 2:46 PM

    Is that Bucket, or Boo-Kay?

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