Loving little Egypt

Thomas A. McMahon

earliest edition we have, 1987 Penguin Books, 1988 272 pages

Contemporary American fiction

In the early 1920s, nearly blind physics prodigy Mourly Vold finds out how to tap into the nation's long distance telephone lines. With the help of Alexander Graham Bell, Vold tries to warn the phone companies that would-be saboteurs could do the same thing, but they ignore him. Unfortunately, his taps do catch the notice of William Randolph Hearst, who hires Thomas Edison to get to the bottom of them and the chase i...

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Loving little Egypt edition · 2003 · University of Chicago Press · 273 pages
Loving little Egypt edition · 1988 · Penguin Books · 272 pages
Loving Little Egypt edition · 1987 · Bodley Head · 273 pages
Loving little Egypt edition · 1987 · Viking · 273 pages

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