Dick Donovan The Glasgow Detective

Dick Donovan The Glasgow Detective
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Publisher : Lulu.com
Total Pages : 283
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ISBN-10 : 9781291051926
ISBN-13 : 1291051929
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Book Synopsis Dick Donovan The Glasgow Detective by : Bruce Durie

Download or read book Dick Donovan The Glasgow Detective written by Bruce Durie and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-08-28 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before Sherlock Holmes there was Dick Donovan The first internationally-popular Victorian police detective, Dick Donovan was Glasgow's own protector of the peace. "Dick Donovan" was the pen-name for a hugely successful series of over 200 stories and books written by James Emmerson Preston Muddock. These tales predated in popularity Conan Doyle's early Sherlock Holmes outings, and some were first were published in The Strand Magazine at the same time as the Holmes stories. Dick Donovan achieved an international reputation as the master sleuth, and is reputedly responsible for American detectives being known popularly as "Dicks". The foremost, the original, the genuine, the one, the only Man-Hunter in his earliest cases - now available again, with introductory and biographical material by Dr. Bruce Durie. Warning! Do not allow your children, servants, or elderly relatives of a nervous disposition to read these stirring tales of wrong-doers brought to book! www.brucedurie.co.uk/books


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