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The Amateur

The Amateur

The Amateur

Richard Harding Davis

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Año de edición:
2012
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Ficción clásica
ISBN:
9781607964698
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The Amateur by Richard Harding DavisFor three years on that most sensational of the New York dailies he had been the star man, the chief muckraker, the chief sleuth. His interest was in crime. Not in crimes committed in passion or inspired by drink, but in such offences against law and society as are perpetrated with crafty intelligence.

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