Dr. Sam. Johnson, detector, being, a light-hearted collection of recently reveal'd episodes in the career of the great lexicographer, narrated as from the pen of James Boswell ...
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Dr. Sam. Johnson, detector, being, a light-hearted collection of recently reveal'd episodes in the career of the great lexicographer, narrated as from the pen of James Boswell ...
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Dr. Sam. Johnson, detector
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IPL library of crime classics
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being, a light-hearted collection of recently reveal'd episodes in the career of the great lexicographer, narrated as from the pen of James Boswell ...
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For over two hundred years, devotees of English literature have lost themselves in James Boswell's Life of Johnson, a biography of the great eighteenth-century thinker and writer, chronicling everything from kitchen chemistry experiments to tackling a pickpocket to his legendary investigation of the Cock Lane ghost. But Dr. Sam Johnson was more than a great thinker-he was also a talented sleuth. From the chilling affair of the waxwork cadaver to the thrilling search for the stolen seal of England, the nine cases in this volume show Johnson at his very best-using his legendary intellect to apprehend the worst killers and thieves the era had to offer
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adult
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