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Bezig met laden... The Adventures of Jimmie Dale (1917)door Frank L. Packard
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. It started out a ripping good yarn but soon failed. The Adventures went on far too long, prose got more and more florrid, and the plot line more and more ridiculous. I was curious enough to finish it but other things would be more worth my time. Jimmie Dale, alias the Gray Seal, is a sort of vigilante and a master safe-cracker. He goes around keeping thugs from doing heinous things, giving back stolen goods, and protecting the poor. He always ends up looking like the criminal, so the police are after him and so are all the crooks he's stymied. Takes place in NYC. Colorful slang, a bit repetitive, awesome scenes in Chinatown's Chang Foo's opium den. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Excerpt: ..."cat-and-mouse" act was never one it favoured, for the mouse had been known to get away. Jimmie Dale lighted the gas again, and turned the package over in his hands. It was, as he had surmised, a small cardboard box; and it was wrapped in plain paper and tied with a string. He untied the string, and still suspicious, as a man is suspicious in the knowledge that he is stalked by peril at every turn, removed the wrapper a little gingerly. It was still without sign or marking upon it, just an ordinary cardboard box. He lifted off the cover, and, with a short, sudden laugh, stared, a little out of countenance, at the contents. On the top lay a white, unaddressed envelope. HERS Beneath Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)814.3Literature English (North America) American essays Middle 19th Century (1830-1861)LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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