Pitts looks at the celluloid careers of more than three dozen sleuths, including Arsene Lupin, Hercule Poirot, Mike Hammer, Miss Jane Marple, Perry Mason, Philip Marlowe, The Shadow, Sherlock Holmes, and The Whistler, and a number of screen gumshoes with brief movie careers and TV detectives. Each chapter highlights a different detective, covering the character's films, the performers who played him or her, the character's image in other media (stage, radio, television, recordings, etc.), plus a detailed filmography and a ...
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Pitts looks at the celluloid careers of more than three dozen sleuths, including Arsene Lupin, Hercule Poirot, Mike Hammer, Miss Jane Marple, Perry Mason, Philip Marlowe, The Shadow, Sherlock Holmes, and The Whistler, and a number of screen gumshoes with brief movie careers and TV detectives. Each chapter highlights a different detective, covering the character's films, the performers who played him or her, the character's image in other media (stage, radio, television, recordings, etc.), plus a detailed filmography and a bibliography of the fictional works about each detective. With additions and corrections to the base volume and scores of photographs.
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Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall Volume ONE only. Very good. Original black cloth with silver lettering. No markings, no bookplate. Not issued in jacket.
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Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall Very good, no markings or bookplate. No dj, as issued. NOT POD junk! Real printed book with quality paper and binding. Old price sticker on front pastedown.
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Very Good in Not Issued jacket. 8vo-over 7æ"-9æ" tall. Hardcover, black cloth with silver block lettering on cover and spine, no dust-jacket as issued. 357pp., Bibliography, Index. Illustrated. First edition, First printing. No previous ownership marks. A square, tightly bound copy with no writing, underlining or highlighting present. Arranged by chapter, the first seventeen profiling one celluloid sleuth each, the eighteenth containing seven minor film detectives. Minor wear from use but overall a very good copy.
