The historic Black Diamond Detective Agency, soon to be the subject of a major motion picture, is renowned worldwide. But could they be wrong this time? John Hardin is a desperate man. When a train carrying official US 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.
- ISBN10 1596431423
- ISBN13 9781596431423
- Publish Date 29 May 2007
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Roaring Brook Press
- Imprint First Second
- Format Paperback
- Pages 144
- Language English