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Booze and the Private Eye
Language: en
Pages: 215
Authors: Rita Elizabeth Rippetoe
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-01-24 - Publisher: McFarland

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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
The Private Eye
Language: en
Pages: 226
Authors: Bran Nicol
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-07-15 - Publisher: Reaktion Books

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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
Jimmy the Wags
Language: en
Pages: 276
Authors: James J. Wagner
Categories: Reference
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000-06 - Publisher: Berkley

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A gritty, outrageous memoir of life on the streets as a PI in New York. Stocked with a stellar cast of swells and skells...rarely anything but fun.' - New York
Gender Bending Detective Fiction
Language: en
Pages: 200
Authors: Heather Duerre Humann
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-02-28 - Publisher: McFarland

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Since the middle of the last century, views on gender norms have shifted dramatically. Reflecting these changes, storylines that involve cross-dressing and tran
The Mammoth Book of Private Eye Stories
Language: en
Pages: 528
Authors: Bill Pronzini
Categories: Detective and mystery stories
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher: Constable

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With its roots in the American private detective fiction of the 1920s but traceable back as far as Sherlock Holmes, the private eye story remains as popular as