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Author : David Geherin
Publisher : Frederick Ungar
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The American Private Eye written by David Geherin and published by Frederick Ungar. This book was released on 1985 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Walton
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022630826X
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)
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 : Bran Nicol
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1780231385
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)
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 : Samantha Seiple
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0545709016
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (457 download)
Download or read book Lincoln's Spymaster: Allan Pinkerton, America's First Private Eye written by Samantha Seiple and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Samantha Seiple, the award winning author of Ghosts in the Fog, comes the first book for young adults to tell the story of Allan Pinkerton, America's first private eye. Lincoln's Spymaster tells the dangerous and action-packed adventures of Allan Pinkerton, America's first private eye and Lincoln's most trusted spymaster.Pinkerton was just a poor immigrant barrel-maker in Illinois when he stumbled across his first case just miles from his home. His reputation grew and people began approaching Pinkerton with their cases, leading him to open the first-of-its-kind private detective agency. Pinkerton assembled a team of undercover agents, and together they caught train robbers, counterfeiters, and other outlaws. Soon these outlaws, including Jesse James, became their nemeses. Danger didn't stop the agency! The team even uncovered and stopped an assassination plot against president-elect Abraham Lincoln! Seeing firsthand the value of Pinkerton's service, Lincoln funded Pinkerton's spy network, a precursor to the Secret Service. Allan Pinkerton is known as the father of modern day espionage, and this is the first book for young adults to tell his story!
Author : Philip Kiszely
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783039105472
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (54 download)
Download or read book Hollywood Through Private Eyes written by Philip Kiszely and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2006 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Manchester, 2003.
Author : Robert Allen Baker
Publisher : Popular Press
ISBN 13 : 9780879723309
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (233 download)
Download or read book Private Eyes written by Robert Allen Baker and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Private Eyes is the complete map to what Raymond Bhandler called "the mean streets," the exciting world of the fictional private eye. It is intended to entertain current PI fans and to make new ones.
Author : Rita Elizabeth Rippetoe
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786481536
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Booze and the Private Eye written by Rita Elizabeth Rippetoe and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-01-24 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hard-bitten PI with a bottle of bourbon in his desk drawer--it's an image as old as the genre of hard-boiled detective fiction itself. Alcohol has long been an important element of detective fiction, but it is no mere prop. Rather, the treatment of alcohol within the works informs and illustrates the detective's moral code, and casts light upon the society's attitudes towards drink. This examination of the role of alcohol in hard-boiled detective fiction begins with the genre's birth, in an era strongly influenced and affected by prohibition, and follows both the genre's development and its relation to our changing understanding of and attitudes towards alcohol and alcoholism. It discusses the works of Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Mickey Spillane, Robert B. Parker, Lawrence Block, Marcia Muller, Karen Kijewski and Sue Grafton. There are bibliographies of both the primary and critical texts, and an index of authors and works.
Author : Robert J. Randisi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780727816245
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (162 download)
Download or read book The Eyes Have it written by Robert J. Randisi and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BLE. First UK edition. Collection of mystery stories featuring private investigators.
Author : Robert Allen Baker
Publisher : Popular Press
ISBN 13 : 9780879723309
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (233 download)
Download or read book Private Eyes written by Robert Allen Baker and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Private Eyes is the complete map to what Raymond Bhandler called "the mean streets," the exciting world of the fictional private eye. It is intended to entertain current PI fans and to make new ones.
Author : Alexander N. Howe
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786480904
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Marcia Muller and the Female Private Eye written by Alexander N. Howe and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1977, Marcia Muller invaded the all-male domain of detective literature and within a decade was established as the mother of the female hardboiled private eye. She is now the author of four detective series, including the critically acclaimed Sharon McCone series of more than two dozen novels. This collection critically assesses Marcia Muller's writing and reevaluates current critical views on women's detective fiction in general. In the first two of the book's three sections, essays explore Muller's engagement with modern and postmodern feminism, ethnicity, and the socially underprivileged. The third section focuses on one of Muller's major themes, the trauma of history. Drawing from the feminist, historicist, mythic, psychoanalytic, and cultural approaches found in all three sections, the conclusion offers a panoramic perspective on Muller's accomplishments.
Author : Bran Nicol
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1780231385
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)
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 : Justin Hopson
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1732319820
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (323 download)
Download or read book If the First Lady Hired Me...: A Private Eye's Tell-All on Cheating in America written by Justin Hopson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-06-28 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ?...my literary entry into the world of private surveillance, divorces, and literally, sex, lies, and videotapes.? Elizabeth Lee Beck, high-profile lawyer who deposed Donald Trump From If the First Lady Hired Me... I can't predict where their marriage goes from here. In any individual situation, it's unwise to guess. I do know, for solid certainty, that cheating IS the kiss of death to marriage and monogamous relationships. First Lady of The United States, can you hear me? If so, allow me to introduce myself. My name is Justin Hopson. I am a seasoned private investigator and retired New Jersey State Trooper. Please know that I?ve been chasing cheaters for over a decade now. In fact, I?ve had the unenviable task of investigating more than 100 divorce cases and have testified in a fair share of court proceedings. Infidelity, unfaithfulness, and adultery are too gentle of words, too proper for what they describe. Cheating is a better choice, much more direct.
Author : Marcus Klein
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299143046
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Easterns, Westerns, and Private Eyes written by Marcus Klein and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Marcus Klein makes major contributions to American studies, literary criticism, and intellectual and social history. In a perfectly crystalline and crystallized way, he brilliantly exhibits how the American imagination was rapidly, unexpectedly, and utterly transformed as we made for the twentieth century. Klein demonstrates how immigration, popular literature, the rise of ethnicity, new psychological fears, and old fables mixed together to make modern America. No one has seen the underside of the American imagination so clearly and originally; but once we are allowed to see what Klein does, our understanding of our history and its vicissitudes is changed for good."--Jay Martin, University of Southern California
Author : Dahlia Schweitzer
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813596386
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)
Download or read book L.A. Private Eyes written by Dahlia Schweitzer and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-01 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. It takes a closer look at narratives—both on screen and on the printed page—in which detectives travel the streets of Los Angeles, uncovering corruption, moral ambiguity, and greed with the conviction of urban cowboys, while always ultimately finding truth and redemption. With a review of Los Angeles history, crime stories, and film noir, L.A. Private Eyes explores the metamorphosis of the solitary detective figure and the many facets of the genre itself, from noir to mystery, on the screen. While the conventions of the genre may have remained consistent and recognizable, the points where they evolve illuminate much about our changing gender and power roles. Watch a video of the author speaking about this topic: https://goo.gl/Xr9RFD And also: https://www.dropbox.com/s/mkqw3mplruf7jje/Detective%20Talk%20Full.mp4?dl=0 (https://www.dropbox.com/s/mkqw3mplruf7jje/Detective%20Talk%20Full.mp4?dl=0)
Author : Paul D. Marks
Publisher : Down & Out Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Coast to Coast 2: Private Eyes from Sea to Shining Sea written by Paul D. Marks and published by Down & Out Books. This book was released on 2017-01-30 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hardboiled. Softboiled. Noir. East Coast. West Coast. And all points in between. Whatever you call them, gumshoe, shamus, Pinkerton, detective, private eye, P.I., shadow, tail, investigator, and wherever you need them, from East to West, North to South. They’re all here. From the hard pavement of Brooklyn, New York, to the mean dusty streets of Carson City. Down to sultry New Orleans and the freak show that’s Venice, CA. From the flim-flammers of Waco, Texas to DC, Las Vegas to San Berdoo and LA. And from Iowa City to San Diego and small town North Carolina—not to mention the low-life drug dealers in a little place called King’s Quarter, Maine. No one is safe in this impressive collection featuring fourteen original private eye stories plus one previously published bonus story. Crime fiction connoisseurs will visit one major crime scene after another with some of today’s best-of-the-best crime writers serving as tour guides. Poisoned-pen masters like: J.L. Abramo, Eric Beetner, Michael Bracken, Meredith Cole, Matt Coyle, Thomas Donahue, John Floyd, Gay Toltl Kinman, Terrill Lee Lankford, Janice Law, Paul D. Marks, Andrew McAleer, O’Neil De Noux, Robert J. Randisi, Art Taylor. COAST TO COAST: PRIVATE EYES FROM SEA TO SHINING SEA features suspense stories ranging from hardboiled to psychological to thrillers. And while these stories differ in locale, climate, mood and tone, they all resonate with the dark underbelly of crime. Praise for COAST TO COAST 2 … “Tough, taut and terrific. This cross-country collection of sleuthing stories —from the best writers in the private eye biz —is wonderfully written, always surprising, and completely entertaining.” —Hank Phillippi Ryan, Anthony, Agatha and Mary Higgins Clark award-winning author of Say No More “A tantalizing array of stories guaranteed to please fans of PI fiction. High fives all around!” —MWA Grand Master Bill Pronzini on Coast to Coast: Private Eyes from Sea to Shining Sea “A bang-up read of PI fiction from a gallery of impressive authors. Coast to Coast: Private Eyes from Sea to Shining Sea is compelling, fun, and full of surprises. A treat.” —Shamus Award-winning author John Shepphird
Author : Sam Brown
Publisher : Ishi Press
ISBN 13 : 9784871874113
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (741 download)
Download or read book Private Eyes What Private Investigators Really Do written by Sam Brown and published by Ishi Press. This book was released on 2011-06 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American public has long been fascinated by private eyes. A multitude of movies, TV shows, and novels, bear witness to this. Yet few people see beyond the romanticized Hollywood mystique to what private investigators really do. PRIVATE EYES is an inside look at today's investigation business. Eight top investigators, all with different specialties, tell you how they got into the business and reveal the tricks they use to solve their cases. Go behind the scenes to learn the latest on investigating murder and mayhem, using hightech listening or spying devices, tailing someone, going undercover, procuring evidence conducting interrogations, using public records, and working with police departments and government agencies This is a must for anyone considering becoming a private investigator, as well as for those already in the business who want a peek at the proven techniques of other PIs. Plus anyone intrigued with the work of private eyes will find this a fascinating read.
Author : Larry E Sullivan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135068100
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Pioneers, Passionate Ladies, and Private Eyes written by Larry E Sullivan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite efforts of contemporary reformers to curb the availability of dime novels, series books, and paperbacks, Pioneers, Passionate Ladies, and Private Eyes reveals how many readers used them as means of resistance and how fictional characters became models for self-empowerment. These literary genres, whose value has long been underestimated, provide fascinating insight into the formation of American popular culture and identity. Through these mass-produced, widely read books, Deadwood Dick, Old Sleuth, and Jessie James became popular heroes that fed the public’s imagination for the last western frontier, detective tales, and the myth of the outlaw. Women, particularly those who were poor and endured hard lives, used the literature as means of escape from the social, economic, and cultural suppression they experienced in the nineteenth century. In addition to the insight this book provides into texts such as “The Bride of the Tomb,” the Nick Carter Series, and Edward Stratemeyer’s rendition of the Lizzie Borden case, readers will find interesting information about: the roles of illustrations and covers in consumer culture Bowling Green’s endeavor to digitize paperback and pulp magazine covers bibliographical problems in collecting and controlling series books the effects of mass market fiction on young girls Louisa May Alcott’s pseudonym and authorship of three dime novels special collections competition among publishers A collection of work presented at a symposium held by the Library of Congress, Pioneers, Passionate Ladies, and Private Eyes makes an outstanding contribution to redefining the role of popular fiction in American life.
