{"product_id":"2940014232074","title":"True Detective Mysteries","description":"Writing true detective stories in the 1940s was barely a step above doing \"pulp\" fiction.  But many newspapermen personally bird-dogged cops and crooks to unearth fascinating intimate details to learn to become so-called investigative reporters.  Such a one was Vance  Trimble.  During his rise from police reporter to managing editor of The Houston Press, he sold  a bushel of true detectives to New York editors.\u003cbr\u003e   That training paid off for Trimble.  In 1960 he exposed Congressional payroll scandals in coast- to-coast dispatches.  The Senate was so frightened by the grassroots uproar that it made public payroll data that had been sealed 31 years.  TIME magazine profiled Trimble as \"Digger on Capitol Hill.\"  He was awarded Washington's three most prestigious journalism prizes, making him for that year America's No.1 national news reporter.\u003cbr\u003e    Here is a collection of five of his early-day published mysteries, a couple top-flight, others perhaps not so much, but all evoking the less sophisticated gangster era of Bonnie and Clyde, Dillinger, and Pretty Boy Floyd.","brand":"Vance Trimble","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47169880948976,"sku":"2940014232074","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940014232074_p0.jpg?v=1763603889","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014232074","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}