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- Title The Legendary Detective: The Private Eye in Fact and Fiction
- Author John Walton
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 232
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Chicago Press
- Date 2015-11
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- ISBN 9780226308265 / 022630826X
- Weight 0.94 lbs (0.43 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6 x 1.1 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 2.79 cm)
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- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Library of Congress subjects Private investigators - United States -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2015015806
- Dewey Decimal Code 363.289
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- Library Journal, 11/01/2015, Page 98
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Hardback. New. 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…
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