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Reporting at wit's end : tales from The New Yorker / St. Clair McKelway ; introduction by Adam Gopnik.
Van Pelt Library PS3525.C54 R48 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McKelway, St. Clair, 1905-1980.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Journalism.
- Genre:
- Short stories.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 620 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First U.S. edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Bloomsbury USA, 2010.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- ISBN:
- 9781608190348
- 160819034X
- OCLC:
- 401150916
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