Master Detective: The Life and Crimes of Ellis Parker, America's Real-Life Sherlock Holmes
- ISBN-10
- 080652751X
- ISBN-13
- 9780806527512
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 320
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007
- Publisher
- Citadel Press
- Author
- John Reisinger
Description
Ellis Parker, a detective known the world over in the early 1900s as the "American Sherlock Holmes," was a profiler before the word was ever coined. "Master Detective" provides a complete picture of the man and the circumstances surrounding his tragic fall.
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