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Crime Where the Nights are Long: Canadian Stories of Crime and Adventure from the Golden Age of Storytelling  
Author: David Skene-Melvin
ISBN: 088924281X
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The period from the early 1880s through the First World War has been called "The Golden Age of the Storytellers." These were the writers who sought not to write great literature, but to entertain, spinning yarns to be printed and read, just as their predecessors, the minstrels and bards, recited and were listened to. Through their countless tales of adventure and derring-do they brought...