The Detectives Eye

Author : Jack French
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780971457089
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Private Eyelashes written by Jack French and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book examines radio and mystery drama from about 1932 to the genre's final appearance in the late 1950's. While its focus is on women detectives, French provides minute and fascinating details about dozens of mystery programs and includes a comprehensive listing of source material ranging from magazine articles, to dime detective novels, to film noir. Each lady detective appearing under one of eight cleverly conceived categories gets handsome, multi-page treatment. The author traces the chronological appearance of the subject's show, examines the program's history and origins, and details with substantial documentation the manner of the show's presentation and production. He intersperses the text with actual dialogue taken directly from the program scripts.

Author : John Walton
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022630826X
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Legendary Detective written by John Walton and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Private detectives and detective agencies played a major role in American history from 1870 to 1940. Pinkerton, Burns, Thiels, and the smaller independents were a multi-million dollar industry, hired out by many if not most American corporations, who needed services of surveillance, strike breaking, and labor espionage. Not only is John Walton's account the first sustained history of this industry, it is also the first book to trace the ways in which the private detective came to occupy a cherished place in popular imagination. Walton paints lively portraits of these mythical figures from Sherlock Holmes, the brilliant eccentric, to Sam Spade, the hard-boiled hero of Dashiell Hammett's best-selling tales. There's a great question lurking in here: how did pulp magazine editors shape the image of the hard-boiled private eye, and what sorts of interplay obtained between the actual records (agency files, memoirs) of these motley individuals in real life and the legend of the private detective in mass-market fiction? This history of the private eyes and this account of how the detective industry and the culture industry played off of each other is a first. Walton show us, in clean clear outline, the figure of the classical private eye, and he shows us further how the memory of this iconic figure was sustained in fiction, radio, film, literary societies, product promotions, adolescent entertainments, and a subculture of detective enthusiasts.

Author : Peter Lovesey
Publisher : Soho Press
ISBN 13 : 1641293128
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Diamond and the Eye written by Peter Lovesey and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Bath antiques dealer has disappeared, and detective Peter Diamond has been saddled with the "help" of a hardboiled Philip Marlowe wannabe private investigator in cracking the case. MWA Grand Master Peter Lovesey's 20th installment in the award-winning series will have readers laughing from the first page. If there's one thing detective Bath Peter Diamond has no patience for, it's a dumb git trying to get involved in one of his investigations—for example, a Philip Marlowe-wannabee private investigator like the self-styled Johnny Getz (his card claims he Getz results). But fate has saddled Diamond with this trial. A Bath antiques dealer, Septimus "Seppy" Hubbard, has disappeared without a trace, and his daughter, Ruby, has hired Johnny Getz to find him. When a dead body is discovered in Seppy's locked-up store, the missing persons case becomes a murder investigation, and now Diamond has to collaborate with the insufferable private eye.

Author : Fortuné Du Boisgobey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Detective's Eye written by Fortuné Du Boisgobey and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alfred Bader
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Detective's Eye written by Alfred Bader and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Marissa Moss
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1683353676
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Eye That Never Sleeps written by Marissa Moss and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2018-11-06 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This wonderfully illustrated children’s biography of the great nineteenth-century detective “evokes a mysterious and exciting old-fashioned tale of espionage” (School Library Journal). Everyone knows the story of Abraham Lincoln, but few know anything about the spy who saved his life on the way to his 1861 inauguration! In The Eye That Never Sleeps, award-winning author and illustrator Marissa Moss reveals the true story of Allen Pinkerton. A poor Scottish immigrant, Pinkerton became the first police detective in Chicago before opening the country’s most successful detective agency. He solved more than 300 murders and recover millions of dollars in stolen money. However, his greatest contribution was foiling an assassination plot against Abraham Lincoln. The Eye That Never Sleeps is illustrated with a contemporary cartoon style, mixing art and text in a way that appeals to readers of all ages. The book also includes a bibliography and a timeline.

Author : Dahlia Schweitzer
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 081359636X
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book L.A. Private Eyes written by Dahlia Schweitzer and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2019-03 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: L.A. Private Eyes examines the tradition of the private eye as it evolves in films, books, and television shows set in Los Angeles from the 1930's through the present day. This book explores the metamorphosis of the solitary detective figure and the many facets of the genre itself.

Author : Felix Gumpaw
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1534474994
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tiger's Eye written by Felix Gumpaw and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this second installment of the funny and stylish new graphic novel series Pup Detectives, the puppy PIs sniff out a statue thief! Fresh off of their victory in nabbing the lunchtime bandit of Pawston Elementary, Rider Woofson and the rest of the pup detectives are on the lookout for their next case. They don’t have to wait long because before you can say “Bow-Wowza!” a crime occurs—the theft of a precious statue known as the Tiger’s Eye that was on display for Show and Tell. The suspects are a-plenty, but the key to catching this crook will come from uncovering who had a motive. The PI Pack is up for the challenge...as long as the investigation doesn’t interfere with lunch!

Author : Bran Nicol
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1780231385
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Private Eye written by Bran Nicol and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2013-07-15 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Philip Marlowe and Sam Spade to Jake Gittes, private eyes have made for some of the most memorable characters in cinema. We often view these detectives as lone wolves who confront and try to make sense of a violent and chaotic modern world. Bran Nicol challenges this stereotype in The Private Eye and offers a fresh take on this iconic character and the film noir genre. Nicol traces the history of private eye movies from the influential film noirs of the 1940s to 1970s neonoir cinema, whose slow and brilliant decline gave way to the fading of detectives into movie mythology today. Analyzing a number of classic films—including The Maltese Falcon, The Big Sleep, Chinatown, and The Long Goodbye—he reveals that while these movies are ostensibly thrillers, they are actually occupied by issues of work and love. The private eye is not a romantic hero, Nicol argues, but a figure who investigates the concealments of others at the expense of his own private life. Combining a lucid introduction to an underexplored tradition in movie history with a new approach to the detective in film, this book casts new light on the private worlds of the private eye.

Author : Bill Pronzini
Publisher : Constable
ISBN 13 : 9781841199047
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Private Eye Stories written by Bill Pronzini and published by Constable. This book was released on 2004 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its roots in the American private detective fiction of the 1920s but traceable back as far as Sherlock Holmes, the private eye story remains as popular as ever. Here are 26 of the finest short novels and stories from the hardboiled world of the private eye.