Reporting at wit's end : tales from The New Yorker

Author

St Clair McKelway

Call Number

• 814 M479 (CEN)

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Edition

1st U.S. ed.

Publication Information

New York : Bloomsbury USA, 2010.

Physical Description

xix, 620 p. ; 21 cm.

Contents

• The 1930s. Firebug-catcher
• Place and leave with
• The innocent man at Sing Sing
• Average cop
• Who is this king of glory? (with A.J. Liebling)
• The 1940s
• Some fun with the F.B.I.
• Mister 880
• The cigar, the three wings, and the low-level attacks
• The wily Wilby
• Gossip writer
• The 1950s. The blowing of the top of Peter Roger Oboe
• The cockatoo
• A case of felony murder
• This is it, honey
• The perils of Pearl and Olga
• The rich recluse of Herald Square
• The 1960s. The Edinburgh caper
• The big little man from Brooklyn.