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    Walker of the Secret Service
    Walker of the Secret Service
    Walker of the Secret Service
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    Walker of the Secret Service

    By Melville Davisson Post

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    Captain Walker, chief of the United States Secret Service, pursued a life of crime as a youth, before refoming. Now he tackles the Service's most difficult cases.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWildside Press
    Release dateAug 1, 2020
    ISBN9781479452026
    Walker of the Secret Service
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    Melville Davisson Post

    Melville Davisson Post (1869–1930) was a West Virginia author and attorney best known for his stories featuring Uncle Abner, an amateur detective and backwoodsman who solves mysteries and hands out justice in the years before the Civil War. Post’s other iconic creation is the amoral lawyer Randolph Mason, whose exploits on behalf of his criminal clients helped to establish the legal thriller genre. 

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