Yesterday's Faces, Volume 4

Yesterday's Faces, Volume 4
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Publisher : Popular Press
Total Pages : 324
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ISBN-10 : 0879724153
ISBN-13 : 9780879724153
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Book Synopsis Yesterday's Faces, Volume 4 by : Robert Sampson

Download or read book Yesterday's Faces, Volume 4 written by Robert Sampson and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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