The Wire Devils

Frank L. Packard

ISBN 10: 0816684561 / ISBN 13: 9780816684564

Verlag: University of Minnesota Press, 2013

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Best known for his Jimmie Dale series of books, which have sold more than 3 million copies worldwide, Frank L. Packard first published The Wire Devils in 1918. A “wire thriller” that uses the booming railroads and telegraph lines of the old West as its backdrop for fast-paced adventure, The Wire Devils follows a criminal gang of the same name who hijack a railroad’s telegraph lines to glean information about profitable shipments. But foiling them again and again is the Hawk, the outlaw hero who robs from the robbers and is ultimately on the side of law and order.

Combining elements from dime-store novels and Packard’s own experience on the rails, The Wire Devils is at once a hybrid western and a thriller still worth reading nearly a century after it was written.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

Frank L. Packard (1877–1942) was a widely published Canadian writer of crime fiction. He was the author of nearly thirty books published from 1914 to 1938. Robert MacDougall is associate professor of history at the University of Western Ontario.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Wire Devils
Verlag: University of Minnesota Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
Einband: Paperback / softback
Zustand: New