Thirteen Detectives

Author : Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Publisher : Viking Press
ISBN 13 : 9780140114362
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thirteen Detectives written by Gilbert Keith Chesterton and published by Viking Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects Chesterton's mysteries featuring sleuths other than Father Brown, such as "The Three Horsemen of the Apocalypse" with a Mr. Pond, but features as well one previously uncollected Father Brown story, "Father Brown and the Donnington Affair"

Author : Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thirteen Detectives written by Gilbert Keith Chesterton and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: T̀hirteen detectives' gathers, for the first time in one volume, the very best of Chesterton's other detective stories, to make a wonderfully entertaining collection which will delight Chesterton fans everywhere.

Author : G. K. Chesterton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780848816582
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thirteen Detectives written by G. K. Chesterton and published by . This book was released on 1996-09-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Laird R. Blackwell
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476676526
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Frederic Dannay, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and the Art of the Detective Short Story written by Laird R. Blackwell and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-02-25 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frederic Dannay (1905-1982) was--with his partner Manfred Lee--the creator of the Ellery Queen detective novels and short stories. Dannay was also a literary historian and critic, and the editor of the renowned Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine. Queen--both a pen name and the fictional protagonist of the stories--was also a vital force behind the continuing popularity of crime fiction in the early to mid-20th century, after the deaths of Arthur Conan Doyle, G.K. Chesterton, Melville Davisson Post, and other Old Masters of the genre. This book presents the first critical study of Ellery Queen's role in the preservation of the detective short story. Many of the writers, characters and stories EQMM championed are covered, including such celebrated authors as Allingham, Ambler, Ellin, Innes, Vickers, and even William Butler Yeats.

Author : Thomas A. Reppetto
Publisher : Enigma Books
ISBN 13 : 1936274116
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Police written by Thomas A. Reppetto and published by Enigma Books. This book was released on 2010-12-28 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its beginnings in eighteenth-century London, this is the history of the largest urban police departments in the United States and a social portrait of America during the first century of its existence. From the birth of the New York City Police Department in 1845 to the end of World War II, each city had its share of crime, murders, vice, drug dealers, and addicts. Boston, New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Los Angeles each had their own history and developed in different ways according to local realities. But in every case, each police department had to deal with its share of good and bad cops, Pinkertons, gangsters, revolutionists, politicians, reporters, muckrakers, arsonists, murderers, district attorneys, strikers, labor spies, hanging judges, and axe-swinging crusaders, as well as every conceivable element of American society high and low. But American Police also offers a view of the FBI and its legendary director, J. Edgar Hoover; District Attorney Earl Warren and police commissioners such as Teddy Roosevelt, Stephen J. O'Meara, Richard Enright, Grover Whalen, Louis J. Valentine, and August Vollmer; and tough cops like Captain William "Clubber" Williams, Johnny "the Boff" Broderick, and John Cordes. It is also the history of crime over the course of a century that transformed the United States from a former colony of the British Empire to a powerful and restless nation poised for spectacular growth. Thomas A. Reppetto, a former commander of detectives, is the author of NYPD and American Mafia.

Author : G K Chesterton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9785550278697
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thirteen Detectives written by G K Chesterton and published by . This book was released on 1987-11-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Maurice Punch
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134028148
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Police Corruption written by Maurice Punch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Policing and corruption are inseparable. This book argues that corruption is not one thing but covers many deviant and criminal practices in policing which also shift over time. It rejects the 'bad apple' metaphor and focuses on 'bad orchards', meaning not individual but institutional failure. For in policing the organisation, work and culture foster can encourage corruption. This raises issues as to why do police break the law and, crucially, 'who controls the controllers'? Corruption is defined in a broad, multi-facetted way. It concerns abuse of authority and trust; and it takes serious form in conspiracies to break the law and to evade exposure when cops can become criminals. Attention is paid to typologies of corruption (with grass-eaters, meat-eaters, noble-cause); the forms corruption takes in diverse environments; the pathways officers take into corruption and their rationalisations; and to collusion in corruption from within and without the organization. Comparative analyses are made of corruption, scandal and reform principally in the USA, UK and the Netherlands. The work examines issues of control, accountability and the new institutions of oversight. It provides a fresh, accessible overview of this under-researched topic for students, academics, police and criminal justice officials and members of oversight agencies.

Author : Haia Shpayer-Makov
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0199577404
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ascent of the Detective written by Haia Shpayer-Makov and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the diverse and often arcane world of English police detectives during the formative period of their profession, from 1842 until the First World War, with special emphasis on the famed detective branch established at Scotland Yard.

Author : Paul Green
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476638373
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Weird Detectives written by Paul Green and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-09-13 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The detective genre has explored supernatural and paranormal themes throughout its colorful history. Stories of detectives investigating spiritualists, ghostly apparitions, the occult and psychics have spanned pulp fiction magazines, comic books, novels, film, television, animation and video games. This encyclopedia covers the history of the genre in its multiple forms and informs and adds to the knowledge of either the new or informed reader. Its A-Z format provides ready reference by title. Detective fans browsing for new discoveries will enjoy the entertaining style.

Author : Jonathan Kellerman
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0345512529
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book True Detectives written by Jonathan Kellerman and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2009-03-24 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Jonathan Kellerman’s gripping novels, the city of Los Angeles is as much a living, breathing character as the heroes and villains who roam its labyrinthine streets. Sunny on the surface but shadowy beneath, this world of privilege and pleasure has a dark core and a dangerous edge. In True Detectives, Kellerman skillfully brings his renowned gifts for breathless suspense and sharp psychological insight to a tale that resonates on every level and satisfies at every turn. Bound by blood but divided by troubles as old as Cain and Abel, Moses Reed and Aaron Fox were first introduced in Kellerman’s bestselling Bones. They are sons of the same strong-willed mother, and their respective fathers were cops, partners, and friends. Their turbulent family history has set them at odds, despite their shared calling. Moses—part Boy Scout, part bulldog, man of few words—is a no-frills LAPD detective. Aaron, sharp dresser and smooth operator, is an ex-cop turned high-end private eye. Usually they go their separate ways. But the disappearance of Caitlin Frostig isn’t usual. For Moses, it’s an ice-cold mystery he just can’t outrun, even with the help of psychologist Alex Delaware and detective Milo Sturgis. For Aaron, it’s a billable-hours bonanza from his most lucrative client. Like it or not, Moses and Aaron are in this one together–and the rivalry that rules them won’t let either man quit till the case is cracked. A straight-arrow, straight-A student from Malibu, Caitlin has only two men in her life: her sullen single father and her wholesome college sweetheart, who even the battling brothers agree seems too downright upright to be true. Reluctantly tag-teaming in a desperate search for fresh leads, Moses and Aaron zero in on Caitlin’s white knight as their primary “person of interest,” hoping that, like most people in L.A., he has a secret side. But they uncover more than just a secret as they descend into the sinister, seamy side of the City of Angels after dark, populated by a Hollywood Babylon cast of the glamorous and the damned: a millionaire movie director turned hatemongering eccentric; a desperate Beverly Hills housewife looking for an exit from the fast lane; a heartthrob actor being eaten alive by personal demons; a hooker who’s probably seen it all . . . and might just know too much. And at the center, a dead young woman whose downward spiral and brutal end loom over Moses and Aaron like an omen of what may come to be if the dark end of the street claims another lost soul.