Word: accidentals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before leaving on Government service overseas in Africa, the thought occurred to me that, with considerable airplane travel necessary, an accident or other causes, such as black-water fever and malaria which break down the blood, might require a blood transfusion in places where laboratory facilities or other modern means...
Abandoned by his friends, deserted by his more powerful ministers, scorned by his people, Ramon Castillo had come to the end of the road called Prudent Neutrality. There was only one course: resign. This Castillo did at the headquarters of the 7th Infantry. He had gained office through accident and...
For Prestige. One of Sidi Mounsaf's fellow puppets, bewhiskered, penny-pinching Admiral Jean Estéva, made good his escape from Tunisia. In Estéva's post as Tunisia's Resident General. General Giraud plunked his own man: tall, jolly General Alphonse Juin, French field...
The Embezzler and Double Indemnity are stern moral warnings that it is easier to embezzle money than to put it back, to murder husbands than to collect their accident insurance. Both tales are also remarkable examples of the art with which Cain makes unfamiliar readers feel at home in such...
As a British tankman, Franchot Tone becomes a spy by accident. Lost in the desert during the British retreat of June 1942, sunstruck, temporarily deranged, he stumbles into a roadside inn which is shortly to become German Staff Headquarters. He quickly assumes the clothes and the role of a dead...