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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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis, Minnesota :
University of Minnesota Press,
2013.
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| Edition: | 1st University of Minnesota Press ed. |
| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | 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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (336 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9780816685110 |