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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9781596431423 Edition: 1st ISBN: 1596431423 Label: First Second Manufacturer: First Second Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 144 Publication Date: May 29, 2007 Publisher: First Second Release Date: May 29, 2007 Studio: First Second Editorial Review: Product Description: John Hardin is a desperate man. When a train carrying official US currency paper explodes in his town, he's the prodigious Black Diamond Detective Agency's sole suspect. John is innocent, but his wife is missing, his old friends are coming back to haunt him--with guns and explosives--and he's on the run through rural Missouri. THE BLACK DIAMOND DETECTIVE AGENCY is based on the historical journals of Arthur James Quindlen, the agency's founder. Adapted and illustrated with watercolor art by Eddie Campbell, this graphic novel brings a new perspective to that time in America when small farmers were the backbone of the country, graft was rampant, and railroads thundered through western towns. Average Rating:
 Rating: - Good old fashioned detective fictionIt starts with a literal bang and keeps going. A very good period piece that has a lot of twists and turns that keeps you guessing to the very end. Great holiday reading. Rating: - beautiful and unusual... in other words, classic CampbellNothing Campbell does is boring and this is no exception. Like Chris Ware, Campbell employs the utmost creativity with his layouts, the irregularly sized frames in The Black Diamond Detective Agency take the predictable flow of your average comic book and toss it out the window (but it's a good thing) and help move a dense plotline along at a brisk pace. In my opinion this is Campbell's most impressive narrative yet. This is his second book with First Second (The Fate of the Artist, also amazing, ... Read More |
