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The wire devils / Frank L. Packard ; introduction by Robert MacDougall.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Packard, Frank L. (Frank Lucius), 1877-1942, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (345 p.)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2013]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The Wire Devils follows a criminal gang of the same name who hijack a railroad's telegraph lines to glean information about profitable shipments. Combining elements from dime-store novels and Frank L. Packard's own experience on the rails, this is at once a hybrid western and a thriller still worth reading nearly a century after it was written.
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Introduction; Chapter I: The Secret Code; Chapter II: The Ten-Dollar Counterfeit Note; Chapter III: The Paymaster's Safe; Chapter IV: At Bald Creek Station; Chapter V: In Which a Cash Box Disappears; Chapter VI: Some of the Little Spiders; Chapter VII: Wanted-The Hawk-Dead or Alive; Chapter VIII: Threads in the Web; Chapter IX: The Looting of the Fast Mail; Chapter X: The Third Party; Chapter XI: The Lead Capsule; Chapter XII: Blindman's-Buff; Chapter XIII: The Man with the Scar; Chapter XIV: The Clue; Chapter XV: The Ladybird; Chapter XVI: An Even Break
- Chapter XVII: A Hole in the WallChapter XVIII: The Hawk Packs His Valise; Chapter XIX: Birds of a Feather; Chapter XX: ""Confidential"" Correspondence
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780816685110
- 0816685118
- OCLC:
- 859389923
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