Richmond, or, Scenes in the Life of a Bow Street Officer is an 1827 crime novel published anonymously and often attributed to Thomas Skinner Surr.

[1][2] It was originally published in three volumes by Henry Colburn of New Burlington Street.

[3] The protagonist Tom Richmond, a picaresque figure, joins the Bow Street Runners after a misspent youth.

[4] It was published shortly before the creation of the Metropolitan Police by Robert Peel.

It was part of the group of Newgate novels that lasted into the early Victorian era.