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Yesterday's Faces: A Study of Series Characters in the Early Pulp Magazines Volume 4: The Solvers

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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.

Language: English

Pages: 320

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Bowling Green University Popular Press

Release: May 14, 1987

ISBN: 0879724153

ISBN 13: 9780879724153

Yesterday's Faces: A Study of Series Characters in the Early Pulp Magazines Volume 4: The Solvers

3.8/5 ( ratings)

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.

Language: English

Pages: 320

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Bowling Green University Popular Press

Release: May 14, 1987

ISBN: 0879724153

ISBN 13: 9780879724153

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