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The Legendary Detective. The Private Eye in Fact and Fiction.
John Walton
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Description for The Legendary Detective. The Private Eye in Fact and Fiction.
hardcover. Num Pages: 232 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTB; KNSS1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 241 x 24. Weight in Grams: 452.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226308265
SKU
V9780226308265
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About John Walton
John Walton is distinguished research professor of sociology at the University of California, Davis and the author of many books.
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