Fairground fiction

detective stories of the World's Columbian Exposition : containing reprints of Emma Murdoch Van Deventer's Against odds, a detective story, and John Harvey Whitson's Chicago Charlie, the Columbian detective

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Author

Donald K. Hartman

Contributions

Hartman, Donald K. - Contributor
Lynch, Lawrence L. - Contributor
Whitson, John Harvey, 1854-1936. - Contributor

Publication

1992 - Motif Press, Kenmore, N.Y, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

112,500 words, Guess

Page Count

450 pages

Identifiers

Open LibraryOL1570167M
ISBN-100962958603
OCLC Control Number25309004
Library of Congress Control Number91061998
Goodreads2390519

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LibraryThing698508

Classifications

DDC813/.0872083277311
LCCPS648.D4 F34 1992

First Sentence

It was I, Carl Masters, of the secret service, so called, who uttered this exclamation, although not a person of the exclamatory school; and small wonder, for I was standing beneath the dome of the Administration Building, and I had but that hour arrived at the World's Fair.

Subjects

Topics

Fiction City and town life Chicago (Ill.) -- Fiction.City and town life -- Fiction.American Detective and mystery stories World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)Detective and mystery stories, American -- Illinois -- Chicago.

Series Statement

Themes and settings in fiction series ;

Other Editions

Fairground fiction: detective stories of the World's Columbian Exposition : containing reprints of Emma Murdoch Van Deventer's Against odds, a detective story, and John Harvey Whitson's Chicago Charlie, the Columbian detectiveMotif Press1992-01-01