
"Excellent writing, puzzling crimes, and plausible and interesting detectives." ― Saturday Review of LiteratureMeet Oliver Armiston, a writer whose ingenious mysteries inspired so many copycat crimes that the authorities began paying him not to write. Together with Deputy "Man Hunter" Parr of the New York Police Department, Armiston takes on cases of fraud, murder, and other nefarious activities i...
Series: Dover Mystery Classics
Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: Dover Publications; First Edition, Reissue ed. edition (June 17, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0486796574
ISBN-13: 978-0486796574
Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.8 x 8.8 inches
Amazon Rank: 879203
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This is an unusual book, very literate, even ornately written, stories of the type that sold the popular magazines of the early twentieth century. You have to be in the right mood to enjoy them -- they won't pick you up and take you along without som...
dryly witty, cleverly constructed whodunits.Author Frederick Irving Anderson (1877–1947) was a star reporter for the New York World from 1898 to 1908 and a popular writer of crime fiction for The Saturday Evening Post and other popular magazines. Because so many of his superb detective stories were written for periodicals, they fell into undeserved neglect. Steeped in the evocative atmosphere of a bygone New York, this collection offers fiction that's seasoned with shrewd evaluations of crime and criminals and enhanced with a delightfully low-key sense of humor."Anybody who enjoys crime novels should enjoy this book." — Jolly Elementary School