Jameson Books Inc. has published Great Philly Cops: Memoir of an Old-School Detective.
The book is authored by Edward Patrick Moffit with Robert Emmet Moffit.
Edward Moffit joined the Philadelphia Police Department in 1942, then soon enlisted in the U.S. Navy.
Five years later, he became an original parishioner at St. Christopher.
Moffit wrote more than 350 pages of manuscript about his time as a police officer, but died in 2006 before a book could be published.
Moffit’s sons, Robert and Edward, read books and articles and interviewed a number of people before publishing the book.
There is a foreword by the late Tom Gibbons, a police officer and Inquirer reporter from Somerton who was the son of a police commissioner.
To purchase the book, go to greatphillycopsbook.com and click “Buy the book.”
Moffit was also known as “The Singing Detective.”
To view a clip of him singing on Ted Mack’s Original Amateur Hour, visit the website and click “About.” ••
