Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lonnie Van Hook invites them out to dinner in a gaudy restaurant. But, alackaday, they must leave their only wristwatch to pay the check, because Mr. Van Hook is suddenly called away. Later, he brings an engagement ring to Joan; she shows it to her true lover (a poor author), who throws it out the window and marries her. Mamie, however, picks up the ring and hooks Mr. Van Hook...
...Vagabond is truly sorry that his old favorite Edgar Allen Poe did not write after 1870, for although he has always enjoyed the author's short stories with a chill of horror, let it be said, nevertheless, that he would like to have some authority tell the story of Poe's death in a gutter. The Vagabond feels that, inasmuch as that is a very possible end for him, he would like to know that geniuses before him have met the same fate...
...Orsini to break the bank at Monte Carlo, the final hunt for the Apache Latouche, two crimes of the "perfect murderer," Hanoi Shan, and others, are all told in a clear, concise, not undramatic fashion. They are tales of detection at first hand, for in almost every case the author himself had some part...
...author has a theory that the police are always a step ahead of the criminal--this indeed like the "You Can't Win" posters in the subways of New York, is one of the main reasons for the writing of the book. Mr. Ashton-Wolfe, particularly in the cases dealing with Hanoi Shan, shows that even the cleverest criminal meets his match. Many murders were committed by this Oriental, who with diabolical cleverness managed always to leave his victims in such a position that the demise seemed due to suicide. But finally Dr. Bertillon grew suspicious, and even this master...
...decidedly, truth is stranger than fiction. So much stranger in fact that were it not for the author's reputation and his frequent reference to police records and newspaper files we should set down his tales not as truth, but fiction...