Master Detective
Subtitle: The Life and Crimes of Ellis Parker- America's Real-Life Sherlock  Holmes
Edition: First printing
Publisher: Citadel Press, Kensington Publishing Corp; Citadel Press
Published: 2006 August
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780806527505
Copyright date: 2006
Subjects: United States - 19th Century; Crime And Criminals; Law Enforcement; History; True Crime / Espionage; History: American; General; History / General; 1930-1932; Case studies; Criminal investigation; Hopewell; Kidnapping; Kidnapping, 1932; Lindbergh, Charles Augustus; New Jersey
Notes: US/CAN
Table of contents: title: Author's Note / ix; title: Acknowledgements / xi; title: 1 A Crime in the Next County (1932) / 1; title: 2 A Fiddler becomes a Detective (1871- 1900) / 17; title: 3 Bloody Murder and Burning Barns (1901-1919) / 28; title: 4 Bootleggers, a Pickled Corpse and 175 Suspects (1920-1922) / 45; title: 5 Two Weddings and a Scandal (1922-1929) / 66; title: 6 Depression Crimes (1930-1932) / 85; title: 7 The Crime of the Century - the Case of a Lifetime (1932-1933) / 107; title: 8 A Semi-Official Investigation (1932) / 117; title: 9 Bradway Brown and an International Fugitive (1933-1934) / 131; title: 10 The Most Hated Man in America (1934) / 151; title: 11 Second Opinions and Second Guesses (1935-1936) / 165; title: 12 The Second Lindbergh Kidnapping (1936) / 185; title: 13 Confessions (1936) / 200; title: 14 The Storm (1936) / 216; title: 15 The Trial of Ellis Parker- the Prosecution (1937) / 244; title: 16 The Trial of Ellis Parker-the Defense and the Verdict (1937) / 257; title: 17 His Last Bow (1937-1940) / 273; title: Epilogue / 289; title: Notes / 299; title: Bibliography / 307; title: Index / 309