Master Detective: The Life and Crimes of America's Real-Life Sherlock Ho Life and Crimes of Ellis Parker, America's Real Life Sherlock Holmes

by Reisinger, John

• ISBN13: 9780806527505
• ISBN10: 0806527501
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-08-01
• Publisher: Citadel

Summary

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. of photos.

Table of Contents

Author's Note	ix
Acknowledgments	xi
1 A Crime in the Next County (1932)	1	(16)
2 A Fiddler Becomes a Detective (1871-1900)	17	(11)
3 Bloody Murder and Burning Barns (1901-1919)	28	(17)
4 Bootleggers, a Pickled Corpse, and 175 Suspects (1920-1922)	45	(21)
5 Two Weddings and a Scandal (1922-1929)	66	(19)
6 Depression Crimes (1930-1932)	85	(22)
7 The Crime of the Century—the Case of a Lifetime (1932-1933)	107	(10)
8 A Semi-Official Investigation (1932)	117	(14)
9 Bradway Brown and an International Fugitive (1933-1934)	131	(20)
10 The Most Hated Man in America (1934)	151	(14)
11 Second Opinions and Second Guesses (1935-1936)	165	(20)
12 The Second Lindbergh Kidnapping (1936)	185	(15)
13 Confessions (1936)	200	(16)
14 The Storm (1936)	216	(28)
15 The Trial of Ellis Parker—the Prosecution (1937)	244	(13)
16 The Trial of Ellis Parker—the Defense, and the Verdict (1937)	257	(16)
17 His Last Bow (1937-1940)	273	(16)
Epilogue	289	(10)
Notes	299	(8)
Bibliography	307	(2)
Index	309