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The Efficiency Expert is catalogued by Project Gutenberg with author credits for Burroughs, Edgar Rice (1875–1950).
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"The Efficiency Expert" by Edgar Rice Burroughs is a novella written in 1919 and published in 1921. Jimmy Torrance, a celebrated college athlete, rejects his father's business offer to prove himself independently in Chicago. Struggling through numerous failed jobs, he befriends a pickpocket and eventually becomes an efficiency expert at a factory. There he uncovers embezzlement, meets a young woman named Elizabeth, and becomes entangled in a web of crime that leads to murder and false accusations.
Book and edition facts
- Title: The Efficiency Expert
- Author credits: Burroughs, Edgar Rice (1875–1950)
- Catalogue language: English
Catalogue subjects
- Chicago (Ill.) -- Fiction
- College graduates -- Fiction
- Gangsters -- Fiction
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- Category: American Literature
- Category: Novels
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