Yesterday's Faces: A Study of Series Characters in the Early Pulp Magazines Volume 4: The Solvers
(Part of the Yesterday's Faces: A Study of Series Characters in the Early Pulp Magazines Series)
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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.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0879724153
ISBN13:9780879724153
Release Date:January 1987
Publisher:Popular Press
Length:320 Pages
Weight:0.96 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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