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The Model Town And The Detectives

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Author : Allan Pinkerton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1876

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The Model Town And The Detectives

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Author : Allan Pinkerton
language : en
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
Release Date : 2012-08-01

The Model Town And The Detectives written by Allan Pinkerton and has been published by Hardpress Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-01 with categories.

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The Model Town And The Detectives

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Author : Allan Pinkerton
language : en
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Release Date : 1876

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The Model Town And The Detectives

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Author : Allan Pinkerton
language : en
Publisher: Palala Press
Release Date : 2015-09-21

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The Model Town And The Detectives

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Author : Allan Pinkerton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1876

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The Lost Detective

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Author : Nathan Ward
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2015-09-15

The Lost Detective written by Nathan Ward and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

A 2016 Edgar Award Nominee Before he became a household name in America as perhaps our greatest hard-boiled crime writer, before his attachment to Lillian Hellman and blacklisting during the McCarthy era, and his subsequent downward spiral, Dashiell Hammett led a life of action. Born in 1894 into a poor Maryland family, Hammett left school at fourteen and held several jobs before joining the Pinkerton National Detective Agency as an operative in 1915 and, with time off in 1918 to serve at the end of World War I, he remained with the agency until 1922, participating alike in the banal and dramatic action of an operative. The tuberculosis he contracted during the war forced him to leave the Pinkertons--but it may well have prompted one of America's most acclaimed writing careers. While Hammett's life on center stage has been well-documented, the question of how he got there has not. That largely overlooked phase is the subject of Nathan Ward's enthralling The Lost Detective. Hammett's childhood, his life in San Francisco, and especially his experience as a detective deeply informed his writing and his characters, from the nameless Continental Op, hero of his stories and early novels, to Sam Spade and Nick Charles. The success of his many stories in the pulp magazine Black Mask following his departure from the Pinkertons led him to novels; he would write five between 1929 and 1934, two of them (The Maltese Falcon and The Thin Man) now American classics. Though he inspired generations of writers, from Chandler to Connelly and all in between, after The Thin Man he never finished another book, a painful silence for his devoted readers; and his popular image has long been shaped by the remembrance of Hellman, who knew him after his literary reputation had been made. Based on original research across the country, The Lost Detective is the first book to illuminate Hammett's transformation from real detective to great American detective writer, throwing brilliant new light on one of America's most celebrated and remembered novelists and his world.

The Legendary Detective

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Author : John Walton
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2015-11-10

The Legendary Detective written by John Walton and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-10 with History categories.

“I’m in a business where people come to me with troubles. Big troubles, little troubles, but always troubles they don’t want to take to the cops.” That’s Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe, succinctly setting out our image of the private eye. A no-nonsense loner, working on the margins of society, working in the darkness to shine a little light. The reality is a little different—but no less fascinating. In The Legendary Detective, John Walton offers a sweeping history of the American private detective in reality and myth, from the earliest agencies to the hard-boiled heights of the 1930s and ’40s. Drawing on previously untapped archival accounts of actual detective work, Walton traces both the growth of major private detective agencies like Pinkerton, which became powerful bulwarks against social and labor unrest, and the motley, unglamorous work of small-time operatives. He then goes on to show us how writers like Dashiell Hammett and editors of sensational pulp magazines like Black Mask embellished on actual experiences and fashioned an image of the PI as a compelling, even admirable, necessary evil, doing society’s dirty work while adhering to a self-imposed moral code. Scandals, public investigations, and regulations brought the boom years of private agencies to an end in the late 1930s, Walton explains, in the process fully cementing the shift from reality to fantasy. Today, as the private detective has long since given way to security services and armed guards, the myth of the lone PI remains as potent as ever. No fan of crime fiction or American history will want to miss The Legendary Detective.

Mississippi Outlaws And The Detectives

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Author : Allan Pinkerton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1879

Mississippi Outlaws And The Detectives written by Allan Pinkerton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1879 with Detectives categories.

The Spiritualists And The Detectives

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Author : Allan Pinkerton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1896

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You Know My Method

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Author : J. Kenneth Van Dover
language : en
Publisher: Popular Press
Release Date : 1994

You Know My Method written by J. Kenneth Van Dover and has been published by Popular Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Fiction categories.

Explores the interrelations between the development of detective novels and the codification of scientific methods from the mid- 19th to the mid-20th centuries. Shows how fictional detectives increasingly drew on science and helped raise its esteem among the public. Focuses on Edgar Allen Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle, R. Austin Freeman, and Arthur B. Reeve, but also notes other writers. Paper edition (unseen), $16.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR