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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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis, Minnesota :
University of Minnesota Press,
2013.
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Edición: | 1st University of Minnesota Press ed. |
Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | 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 still worth reading nearly a century after it was written. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (336 pages). |
ISBN: | 9780816685110 |