The Hardy Boys' Detective Handbook
by Franklin W. Dixon, with Captain D. A. Spina
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About This Item
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, ( 1959 ). Revised edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo; [x] , 214 pages, pictorial cloth
"This manual is written in story form, based on actual cases. Each chapter illustrates one or more of the latest techniques used by all progressive professional investigators - Foreword by Capt. Spina. Soon after this publication, Capt. Spina was indicted for criminality ( he was eventually acquitted). He was replaced in the next edition, Revised, by FBI agent William F. Flynn. This text is abridged from the original,
"This manual is written in story form, based on actual cases. Each chapter illustrates one or more of the latest techniques used by all progressive professional investigators - Foreword by Capt. Spina. Soon after this publication, Capt. Spina was indicted for criminality ( he was eventually acquitted). He was replaced in the next edition, Revised, by FBI agent William F. Flynn. This text is abridged from the original,
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- Bookseller
- Thomas J. Joyce And Company (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6377
- Title
- The Hardy Boys' Detective Handbook
- Author
- Franklin W. Dixon, with Captain D. A. Spina
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Revised edition
- Publisher
- Grosset & Dunlap
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- ( 1959 )
- Keywords
- true crime, hardy boys, capt. d. a. spina, police work, criminal forensics, 9780448025902,
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Thomas J. Joyce And Company
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About Thomas J. Joyce And Company
Joyce And Company has been in business as a professional rare bookseller and appraiser since 1975. Owner Thomas Joyce was the regular book appraiser on Home & Garden TV\'s \"The Appraisal Fair\\\" program, on international broadcasts. Thomas Joyce was the co-discoverer of George Washington's personal copy of William Leybourn's 1679 edition of THE COMPLEAT SURVEYOR, from which young Washington learned some of his surveying skills at age 16. The book had vanished for nearly a century until its re-discovery in 2017. It is now back at Mt. Vernon.
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