The Further Adventures of Jimmie Dale: Novel, Packard Frank L.
Автор: Packard Frank L. Название: The Adventures of Jimmie Dale: Novel (1917) ISBN: 1082239607 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781082239601 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 13220.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Frank Lucius Packard (February 2, 1877 - February 17, 1942) was a Canadian novelist. LifeFrank L. Packard was born in Montreal, Quebec and educated at McGill University and the University of Liege. As a young man he worked as a civil engineer for the Canadian Pacific Railway. His experiences working on the railroad led to his writing many railroad stories, then to a series of mystery novels, the most famous of which featured a character called Jimmie Dale.Several of his novels were made into films.Frank Packard died in 1942 in Lachine, Quebec and was buried in the Mount Royal Cemetery in Montreal....Jimmie Dale is a fictional character created by Frank L. Packard in 1914. Fictional biographyA wealthy playboy by day, at night he puts on inconspicuous dark clothes, a mask and a black slouch hat and becomes The Grey Seal, who enters businesses or homes and cracks safes, always leaving a diamond shaped, grey paper "seal" (with gum on the back) behind to mark his conquest (so others will not be blamed for his crimes), but never taking anything. He was just doing it for "the sheer deviltry of it" at first, but when an unknown woman known only as Tocsin (from chapter 7, after he finds a ring belonging to her with "Sonnez le Tocsin" on it, French for "Ring the alarm bell") catches him (before the first book) she blackmails him to war on certain crime organizations. In the first story, she had left him alone for a year with no new cases. She soon makes up for lost time.As the Grey Seal, he wears a mask and carries a girdle full of lock picks and such meaning no door or safe can defy him. A case starts with Dale receiving a letter in a roundabout way from the woman with very complete instructions on what he is to do. There is never any explanation how she gains such incredible knowledge of every crime, every house and every criminal and even how she knows everything about Dale, though she too has an underworld identity. He memorises each letter then tears them into the tiniest pieces and discards them. He has searched for clues as to who she is but has found none. Though Dale carries a gun, he does not kill, not even when a thief stole a letter before he read it and learned his identity. It is mostly used as a threat. The Gray Seal originally has the respect of the Underworld, thinking him another thief but when he exposes to the police a crooked lawyer who helped many of them as well as some crooks, they want him dead.Educated at Harvard and with a house on the expensive Riverside Drive, Dale is a member of the very select St. James Club, having inherited a lot of money from his late father when he sold his safe making business. The elderly Jason is his butler and the young Benson his chauffeur. He also owns an old house with three exits (one hidden) in the Bowery (Manhattan) which he calls his Sanctuary and keeps some changes of clothes and make up there under loose boards for when he becomes the hard faced dope fiend, "Larry The Bat" who has access to all the Underworld because they trust him. In the earlier stories and a later story in the second book, he has an old friend, Herman Carruthers, editor of the (morning) News-Argus newspaper, a source of information and someone who hopes to expose the Grey Seal's real identity one day. The newspapers criticise the police hard for their continued failure to capture the Gray Seal....
Автор: Packard Frank L. Название: The Belovйd Traitor: Large Print ISBN: 1697759564 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781697759563 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 19530.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: "There is a Valley called the Valley of Illusion, but beyond it, sun-crowned, is the Peak of Eternal Truth.and the Way from the Valley to the Peak is sore beset, for the Way is the Understanding of Things Real, and its Achievement is the Fullness of Life. It was a wilder gust than any that had gone before. .
Автор: Foster Patrick R. Название: Packard: An Illustrated History 1899-1958 ISBN: 1583883460 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781583883464 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 33980.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка.
Автор: Packard Frank L. Название: The Wire Devils ISBN: 1532725701 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781532725708 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 32070.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Packard Frank L. Название: From Now On: Classic ISBN: 1703539206 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781703539202 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 9990.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: A Wild and prolonged roar came from every quarter of the race track. It swelled in volume. It came again and again. Pandemonium itself seemed loosed.Outside the enclosure, a squat, fat man, the perspiration rolling in streams down his face, tugged at his collar with frantic, nervous jerks, as he leaned in over the side of a high-powered car, and with his other hand gripped at the arm of the young man in the driver's seat."Dave, listen to 'em My God, listen to 'em " snarled the fat man.Dave Henderson, with the toe of his boot, moved the little black satchel that the other had dropped on the floor of the car farther to one side; and, by way of excuse for disengaging his arm, reached into his pocket for his cigarettes."I can hear 'em - even a yard away out here " he said imperturbably. "Sounds like a great day for the bookies - not " ....................Frank Lucius Packard (February 2, 1877 - February 17, 1942) was a Canadian novelist. LifeFrank L. Packard was born in Montreal, Quebec and educated at McGill University and the University of Liege. As a young man he worked as a civil engineer for the Canadian Pacific Railway. His experiences working on the railroad led to his writing many railroad stories, then to a series of mystery novels, the most famous of which featured a character called Jimmie Dale.Several of his novels were made into films.Frank Packard died in 1942 in Lachine, Quebec and was buried in the Mount Royal Cemetery in Montreal.
Автор: Packard Frank L. Название: The Four Stragglers ISBN: 109766158X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781097661589 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 14890.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: "The Four Stragglers," by Frank L. Packard. A thriller by the thrilling author of the "Adventures of Jimmy Dale," reviewed in The Lariat. A war story with rockets flaring in the heavens, guns crashing, four men on the battlefield and they meet again afterwards amid mysteries and still greater thrills. The hero is a young American with enough romance to suit anyone. The villain tries to make a hideous cats paw (in the theft of half a million dollars) of a high-minded, pure-souled girl. Of course it ends all right as do all the Packard detective stories.--The Lariat, Volume 1
Автор: Packard Frank L. Название: The White Moll: Large Print ISBN: 1697755275 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781697755275 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 13780.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: It was very shallow, scarcely three-quarters of an inch in depth, but it was quite long enough, and quite wide enough for its purpose Inside, there lay a little pile of banknotes, banknotes of very large denomination-the one on top was a thousand-dollar bill.
Автор: Packard Frank L. Название: From Now On ISBN: 1697755305 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781697755305 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 52870.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: A tale of gambling and mystery. Excerpt: A wild and prolonged roar came from every quarter of the race track. It swelled in volume. It came again and again. Pandemonium itself seemed loosed. .
Автор: Packard Frank L. Название: The Adventures of Jimmie Dale ISBN: 1717325076 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781717325075 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 24010.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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