| Yesterday's Faces, Volume 4: The Solvers Contributor(s): Sampson, Robert (Author) |
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ISBN: 0879724153 ISBN-13: 9780879724153 Publisher: Popular Press OUR PRICE: $17.05 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 1987 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Popular Culture |
| Dewey: 813.087 |
| LCCN: 82073597 |
| Series: Yesterday's Faces, a Study of Series Characters in the Early |
| Physical Information: 0.72" H x 6" W x 9" (1.04 lbs) 320 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: For the fourth volume of this series, Robert Sampson has selected more than fifty magazine series characters to illustrate the development of the character of the detective. Included here are both the amateur and professional detective, female investigators, deducting doctors, brilliant amateurs, and equally brilliant professional police. There are private detectives reflecting Holmes and hard-boiled cops from the parallel traditions of realism and melodramatic fantasy. Characters include Brady and Riordan, Terry Trimble, Glamorous Nan Russell, J. G. Reeder, plus many others. |