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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : McKelway, St. Clair (1905-1980)
Titre(s) : Reporting at wit's end [Texte imprimé] : tales from "The New Yorker" / St. Clair McKelway ; introduction by Adam Gopnik
Édition : First U.S. edition
Publication : New York : Bloomsbury USA, cop. 2010
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XIX-620 p.) ; 21 cm
Comprend : The 1930s. Firebug-catcher ; Place and leave with ; The innocent man at Sing Sing
; Average cop ; Who is this king of glory? (with A.J. Liebling) ; The 1940s ;
Some fun with the F.B.I. ; Mister 880 ; The cigar, the three wings, and the low-level
attacks ; The wily Wilby ; Gossip writer ; The 1950s. The blowing of the top of
Peter Roger oboe ; The cockatoo ; A case of felony murder ; This is it, honey ;
The perils of Pearl and Olga ; The rich recluse of Herald Square ; The 1960s. The
Edinburgh caper ; The big little man from Brooklyn.
Note(s) : Writing for the magazine from the 1930s through the 1960s, McKelway specialized in
light true crime stories about arsonists, embezzlers, counterfeiters, suspected Communists,
and innocent men and the fire investigators, forensic accountants, Secret Service
men, clueless FBI agents, and biased cops who pursued them
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Gopnik, Adam (1956-....). Préfacier
Sujet(s) : The New Yorker (périodique)
Reportage -- États-Unis -- 1900-1945
Reportage -- États-Unis -- 1945-1970
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781608190348. - ISBN 160819034X
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb42516400c
Notice n° :
FRBNF42516400
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