Flash Evans and the Darkroom Mystery
By: by Frank Bell [pseudonym].
Edition: [1st edition]
Series: Flash Evans #1
Publisher: Cupples & Leon Co.
Published: 1940
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 212
Subjects: Evans, Flash (Fictitious characters) -- Juvenile fiction.; Mystery and detective stories; Photojournalists -- Juvenile fiction.
Genres: Juvenile fiction
Description: Jimmy Evans has always dreamed of becoming a newspaper photographer, but, he has been unable to land a newspaper job since graduating from highschool.  His luck breaks when he is in the right place at the right time and photographs the capture of two notorious criminals.  His photos win him a position at the Ledger, where he is given the nickname "Flash."  After his first assignment, covering a fight, he overexposes his film.  Next, he takes some excellent photographs of a fire, but his film is ruined in developing.  His bad luck continues when more of his photographs disappear before they reach the editor.  He realizes that somebody wants him to lose his job at the newspaper and sets out to discover who.