Book Description
Offers a behind-the-scenes view of the elite LAPD Homicide Special unit in action as they undertake investigations into the murder of a Russian call girl, the shooting of a gangster's daughter, and other cases.
Author : Miles Corwin
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 25,59 MB
Release : 2004-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780805076943
Offers a behind-the-scenes view of the elite LAPD Homicide Special unit in action as they undertake investigations into the murder of a Russian call girl, the shooting of a gangster's daughter, and other cases.
Author : John Walton
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 40,48 MB
Release : 2015-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 022630826X
Private detectives and detective agencies played a major role in American history from 1870 to 1940. Pinkerton, Burns, Thiels, and the smaller independents were a multi-million dollar industry, hired out by many if not most American corporations, who needed services of surveillance, strike breaking, and labor espionage. Not only is John Walton's account the first sustained history of this industry, it is also the first book to trace the ways in which the private detective came to occupy a cherished place in popular imagination. Walton paints lively portraits of these mythical figures from Sherlock Holmes, the brilliant eccentric, to Sam Spade, the hard-boiled hero of Dashiell Hammett's best-selling tales. There's a great question lurking in here: how did pulp magazine editors shape the image of the hard-boiled private eye, and what sorts of interplay obtained between the actual records (agency files, memoirs) of these motley individuals in real life and the legend of the private detective in mass-market fiction? This history of the private eyes and this account of how the detective industry and the culture industry played off of each other is a first. Walton show us, in clean clear outline, the figure of the classical private eye, and he shows us further how the memory of this iconic figure was sustained in fiction, radio, film, literary societies, product promotions, adolescent entertainments, and a subculture of detective enthusiasts.
Author : John Thomas McIntyre
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 12,39 MB
Release : 2021-11-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
This book follows self-proclaimed student of crime detective Ashton-Kirk on yet another mysterious adventure. A true example of the crime genre, the Ashton Kirk series also includes Investigator, Criminologist, and Secret Agent books. It is widely considered one of the best escapist drama and mystery series of the last century, thanks to its hard-to-guess conclusions. John Thomas McIntyre is well-known for his easy-to-read, popular writing style and complex plots.
Author : John T. McIntyre
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 21,2 MB
Release : 2023-10-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3387099487
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Author : David Stuart Davies
Publisher : Wordsworth Editions
Page : 1284 pages
File Size : 42,32 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781840220650
This is a richly entertaining collection of stories from the golden age of crime fiction - a period when crimes were solved by the wit and ingenuity of the sleuth with only his own intelligence to rely on
Author : Jon Tuska
Publisher : Doubleday Books
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 28,34 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN :
Author : Mark B. Wignall
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 46,87 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781465373526
In the quiet city of Westgate Shores life hardly moves forward, without a shove, even sunlight tries to not directly shine on the town too quickly. Here however the land is peaceful; no technology or brand rules the social hierarchy people are just decent, very dull and everywhere. But this recluse for the overly excited now plays host to a criminal mob from the modern high powered era terrorising its streets, recruiting its youth and being very troublesome for the cities, illuminating, police force who just so happen to recruit a local man of their own who has a mysterious past, a big sword and a habit of kicking buttocks where ever his foot can reach it. This is the introduction of Jack Ryan, who will take the fi ght to the street, the road, the street again and a dozen other dotted places around town. Lets just hope he can get it done right along side the humbling bumbling police unit S.O.23 and the beautiful "Penelope" who is a transfer offi cer from France who carries a really big gun and really modest opinions.
Author : John Thomas McIntyre
Publisher :
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 20,47 MB
Release : 1914
Category : Detective and mystery stories
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 37,58 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Criminal investigation
ISBN :
Author : Lisa Lutz
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 42,42 MB
Release : 2009-01-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1416594175
Izzy Spellman, a twenty-eight-year-old amalgamation of Nancy Drew and Bridget Jones, launches her career as a private investigator while working for the firm of her outlandishly dysfunctional family. A first novel. Reprint.