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Master Detective

The Life and Crimes of Ellis Parker, America's Real-Life Sherlock Holmes

ISBN-13: 9780806527512

Contributor(s): John Reisinger

Subjects: True Crime

Publisher: PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE GROUP

Publisher Imprint: Citadel

Publication Date: 06-09-2007

Format: Paperback

Availability: Out of stock

£11.99

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About the book

Ellis Parker, a detective known the world over in the early 1900s as the American Sherlock Holmes', solved over 98% of the murders in his New Jersey county. Drawing on the emerging discipline of psychology and his uncanny deductive reasoning skills, he was a 'profiler' before the term existed. So how did he end up behind bars, dying tragically in prison? When he involved himself in the biggest case of his career - the kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby in 1932 - he inadvertently set in motion his own undoing. This book sets the record straight on this enigmatic man.'