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Yesterday’s Faces Volume 4: The Solvers Robert Sampson Popular Press For the fourth volume of this series, Robert Sampson has selected more than fifty magazine series characters to illustrate the development of the character of the detective. Included here are both the amateur and professional detective, female investigators, deducting doctors, brilliant amateurs, and equally brilliant professional police. There are private detectives reflecting Holmes and hard-boiled cops from the parallel traditions of realism and melodramatic fantasy. Characters include Brady and Riordan, Terry Trimble, Glamorous Nan Russell, J. G. Reeder, plus many others. Media & bookseller inquiries regarding review copies, events, and interviews can be directed to the publicity department at publicity@uwpress.wisc.edu or (608) 263-0734. (If you want to examine a book for possible course use, please see our Course Books page. If you want to examine a book for possible rights licensing, please see Rights & Permissions.)

LC: 82-073597 PS 320 pp. 6 x 9 12 b/w illus. Cloth OUT OF PRINT ISBN 978-0-87972-414-6 Paper $17.95 t ISBN 978-0-87972-415-3 ADD TO CART

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