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<b>The origins of literature's finest crime fighters, told by their creators themselves</b> <br> Their names ring out like gunshots in the dark of a back alley, crime fighters of a lost era whose heroic deeds will never be forgotten. They are men like Lew Archer, Pierre Chambrun, Flash Casey, and the Shadow. They are women like Mrs. North and the immortal Nancy Drew. These are detectives, and they are some of the only true heroes the twentieth century ever knew. <br> In this classic volume, Otto
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- Author
- Penzler, Otto] (editor)
- Publisher
- MysteriousPress.com/Open Road Integrated Media
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781453266403
- Category
- work of literary fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Mystery, Literary Collections
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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