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The wire devils /

The Wire Devils follows a criminal gang of the same name who hijack a railroad's telegraph lines to glean information about profitable shipments. Combining elements from dime-store novels and Frank L. Packard's own experience on the rails, this is at once a hybrid western and a thriller st...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Packard, Frank L. (Frank Lucius), 1877-1942
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis, Minnesota : University of Minnesota Press, 2013.
Edición:1st University of Minnesota Press ed.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Cover; Contents; Introduction; Chapter I: The Secret Code; Chapter II: The Ten-Dollar Counterfeit Note; Chapter III: The Paymaster's Safe; Chapter IV: At Bald Creek Station; Chapter V: In Which a Cash Box Disappears; Chapter VI: Some of the Little Spiders; Chapter VII: Wanted-The Hawk-Dead or Alive; Chapter VIII: Threads in the Web; Chapter IX: The Looting of the Fast Mail; Chapter X: The Third Party; Chapter XI: The Lead Capsule; Chapter XII: Blindman's-Buff; Chapter XIII: The Man with the Scar; Chapter XIV: The Clue; Chapter XV: The Ladybird; Chapter XVI: An Even Break. 
505 8 |a Chapter XVII: A Hole in the WallChapter XVIII: The Hawk Packs His Valise; Chapter XIX: Birds of a Feather; Chapter XX: ""Confidential"" Correspondence. 
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