The Legendary Detective

Download The Legendary Detective full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online free The Legendary Detective ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!

The Legendary Detective

The Legendary Detective
Author :
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 230
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780226308432
ISBN-13 : 022630843X
Rating : 4/5 (43X Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Legendary Detective by : John Walton

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: “I’m in a business where people come to me with troubles. Big troubles, little troubles, but always troubles they don’t want to take to the cops.” That’s Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe, succinctly setting out our image of the private eye. A no-nonsense loner, working on the margins of society, working in the darkness to shine a little light. The reality is a little different—but no less fascinating. In The Legendary Detective, John Walton offers a sweeping history of the American private detective in reality and myth, from the earliest agencies to the hard-boiled heights of the 1930s and ’40s. Drawing on previously untapped archival accounts of actual detective work, Walton traces both the growth of major private detective agencies like Pinkerton, which became powerful bulwarks against social and labor unrest, and the motley, unglamorous work of small-time operatives. He then goes on to show us how writers like Dashiell Hammett and editors of sensational pulp magazines like Black Mask embellished on actual experiences and fashioned an image of the PI as a compelling, even admirable, necessary evil, doing society’s dirty work while adhering to a self-imposed moral code. Scandals, public investigations, and regulations brought the boom years of private agencies to an end in the late 1930s, Walton explains, in the process fully cementing the shift from reality to fantasy. Today, as the private detective has long since given way to security services and armed guards, the myth of the lone PI remains as potent as ever. No fan of crime fiction or American history will want to miss The Legendary Detective.


The Legendary Detective Related Books

The Legendary Detective
Language: en
Pages: 230
Authors: John Walton
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-11-10 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

“I’m in a business where people come to me with troubles. Big troubles, little troubles, but always troubles they don’t want to take to the cops.” That�
The Legendary Detective
Language: en
Pages: 230
Authors: John Walton
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-11-10 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Private detectives and detective agencies played a major role in American history from 1870 to 1940. Pinkerton, Burns, Thiels, and the smaller independents were
Disneyland Detective
Language: en
Pages: 254
Authors: Kendra Trahan
Categories: Juvenile Nonfiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher: Kendra Trahan

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This enthusiastic investigation of Disneyland's hidden treasures leads both first-time visitors and aficionados through the legendary theme park while pointing
The Detective Is Already Dead, Vol. 1
Language: en
Pages: 197
Authors: nigozyu
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-06-29 - Publisher: Yen Press LLC

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

When the story begins without its hero Kimihiko Kimizuka has always been a magnet for trouble and intrigue. For as long as he can remember, he’s been stumblin
The Dying Detective
Language: en
Pages: 434
Authors: Leif GW Persson
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-05-23 - Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

***WINNER OF THE CRIME WRITERS' ASSOCIATION'S INTERNATIONAL DAGGER 2017*** ***WINNER OF THE DANISH ACADEMY OF CRIME WRITERS' PALLE ROSENKRANTZ PRIZE (Best Crime