Books and BipedsArgus Books, 1947 - 258 pages "In a word, 'Books and Bipeds' is for the most part a selection of paragraphs from my weekly book column in the "Chicago Sunday Tribune'..." -- foreword. |
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Page 62
... detective - stories , save by the loosest interpretation . Indeed , as there were no detectives in the world until the dubious reformation of Eugene Francois Vidocq , the French police spy , who founded the world's first detective ...
... detective - stories , save by the loosest interpretation . Indeed , as there were no detectives in the world until the dubious reformation of Eugene Francois Vidocq , the French police spy , who founded the world's first detective ...
Page 110
... detective fiction as an art was made in a group of short - stories , published as The Singing Bone [ 1912 ] , in which he invented the " inverted " detective story 110 BOOKS AND BIPEDS.
... detective fiction as an art was made in a group of short - stories , published as The Singing Bone [ 1912 ] , in which he invented the " inverted " detective story 110 BOOKS AND BIPEDS.
Page 111
Vincent Starrett. in which he invented the " inverted " detective story . In these engaging tales the reader is first shown the crime and the criminal- is put in possession of all the facts before the detective takes over . There- after ...
Vincent Starrett. in which he invented the " inverted " detective story . In these engaging tales the reader is first shown the crime and the criminal- is put in possession of all the facts before the detective takes over . There- after ...
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