Word: beastes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...problem which has not been solved, even by the vigilance of Mr. Apted's stalwarts. Some days it just appears, that's all. And nobody knows when it will come again--or why. But officers of the University inside know their Trojan history, and they do not like the beast at all. It seems docile enough, never blocking Yard traffic, and invariably vanishes when closely approached or frightened. Nevertheless, all who have seen it agree that it has an ominous air and wish it would go away forever...
...BEAST MUST DIE-Nicholas Blake -Harper...
...also wrote detective stories under the name of Nicholas Blake-well-plotted affairs such as There's Trouble Brewing and A Question of Proof. This week, his latest murder mystery appeared with both his name and pseudonym on the jacket. This may have been self-protection, for The Beast Must Die revolves around a writer of mystery stories whose carefully guarded pseudonym gets him into no end of trouble...
...Beast Must Die tells the story of Mysterymaker Frank Cairnes, known to thousands under his pseudonym but to few by his real name, after his son is killed by a hit-&-run driver. Slipping into his ready-made disguise, Cairnes set out to avenge his son, soon finds himself involved in a conventional dilemma-one of seven suspects in a murder case, all with unsatisfactory accounts of their actions at the time of the killing. The mystery is literary because its solution depends largely on a critical analysis of a piece of writing: a sensitive detective finds revealing insincerity...
Those who are expecting to see Katherine Hepburn and Cary Grant in a follow up of "Bringing Up Baby" will be surprised to find "Holiday" at Loew's this week concerns an entirely different kind of wild beast from Baby. Here the beast is riches and all the stuffed shirts that go with it, and the whole movie is a fast moving but fairly serious description of the shortcomings of an extremely wealthy society...