Add this copy of Gumshoe Reflections in a Private Eye to cart. $9.45, good condition, Sold by Gulf Coast Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Memphis, TN, UNITED STATES, published 1988 by Little Brown.
Add this copy of Gumshoe: Reflections in a Private Eye to cart. $11.00, very good condition, Sold by HPB-Ruby rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Dallas, TX, UNITED STATES, published 1988 by Little, Brown and Company.
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Add this copy of Gumshoe Reflections in a Private Eye to cart. $11.99, fair condition, Sold by St. Vinnie's Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Eugene, OR, UNITED STATES, published 1988 by Little Brown and Company.
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Acceptable. Hardcover The item is fairly worn but still readable. Signs of wear include aesthetic issues such as scratches, worn covers, damaged binding. The item may have identifying markings on it or show other signs of previous use. May have page creases, creased spine, bent cover or markings inside. Packed with care, shipped promptly.
Add this copy of Gumshoe: Reflections in a Private Eye to cart. $14.99, very good condition, Sold by Half Price Books Inc rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Dallas, TX, UNITED STATES, published 1988 by Little, Brown and Company.
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Add this copy of Gumshoe Reflections in a Private Eye to cart. $14.99, good condition, Sold by Friends of the Phoenix Library rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Phoenix, AZ, UNITED STATES, published 1988 by Little Brown.
Add this copy of Gumshoe: Reflections in a Private Eye to cart. $19.00, good condition, Sold by Ed's Editions, LLC rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Columbia, SC, UNITED STATES, published 1988 by Little, Brown and Company.
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Good. Clean, has a good binding, no marks or notations, pages are in good condition, moderate dust jacket wear including small tears around the top and bottom edges, faded stamp on the top edge. LF.
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Boston. 1988. Little Brown. 1st Printing. Very Good in Worn Dustjacket. 0316841757. 312 pages. hardcover. Inscribed by the Author. keywords: Autobiography Mystery America. FROM THE PUBLISHER-GUMSHOE is one of the few non-fiction works about the world of the private eye written by a working detective. In these pages you'll encounter the concrete textures of the detective's world, the smells, the sounds, the fears, the weariness, the exhilaration. In this world on the margins of society, you'll learn how it feels to shadow someone on foot or in a car, how difficult it is to take surveillance without getting caught, and why hunch and intuition are more important than logic. Thompson's cases run the gamut from recovering thirty thousand dollars from under the floorboards of an attic in a drug case to attempting to save an innocent man from the gas chamber and retrieving a kidnapped child from India. The book is not, however, a collection of ‘memorable cases'. It is, rather, an account of an education and an initiation. It tells of a philosophy professor who gives up his tenure at a prestigious American University to work for five dollars an hour as a detective. Trained by a man who is both a master detective and an expert on Dashiell Hammett, Thompson comes to see his new trade as an obscure art form, and he becomes infatuated with it. Under the enigmatic direction of his mentor, he moves from apprentice ‘operative' to detective in his own right, the whole process lit up by the ideal of Hammett, the only detective writer who ever worked as a gumshoe. Out of this experience Thompson distils a visceral knowledge of the detective's goals and limits, of how the surveillance man's aim to be God (the eye that sees and is not seen) is belied by the side-view mirror mounted on his car door, and of how all the abilities of the master detective become disabilities in the world of love. inventory #22584.
Add this copy of Gumshoe Reflections in a Private Eye to cart. $24.86, new condition, Sold by Chidoc5 Rare Books rated 2.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Highland Park, IL, UNITED STATES, published 1988 by Little Brown.
