Word: beds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flying boat from Germany as a "transatlantic flight." He wished they would not ask him lor the101st time if the route via Iceland and Greenland, which he had surveyed thrice in three years, were "feasible." Above all he wished they would leave so he might go to bed. As if to persuade them that he really was not worth so much fuss, he said...
SAINT SATURNIN-Jean Schlumberger -Dodd, Mead. When old Madame Colombe dies peacefully in her bed at Saint Saturnin. her children Louis. Jourdaine, Nicholas speculate on the significance of her departure. None of them anticipates its most ghastly consequence: their father, deprived of his wife's tactful authority, begins a quavering descent into senile decay. The first sign comes when Nicholas goes to bring old William Colombe to the death bed. The old man snores loudly, pretends to be asleep. After his wife's funeral, he persuades an aging adventuress to remain at Saint Saturnin, apparently plans ,to marry...
...EBOXY BED MURDER?Rufus Gillmore?Mystery League...
...letting youngsters ride free. He got a job as bookkeeper in a San Francisco bank, held and hated it for 13 years. In the San Francisco earthquake of 1906 he suffered injuries to his shoulder and foot. Short while later in Manhattan he underwent an operation, was in bed for months. Says he: "It was while I was flat on my back, after that operation, that I became 'John Martin.' . . . There has been a deep and strong undercurrent in my life, an urge that kept pushing me on. It was a great love of children, a desire to give them...
...respect in which mystery fiction resembles reality most closely is the fact that the culprits are not often punished. In The Ebony Bed Murder, however, the chief investigator is an eccentric advertising tycoon who does better than the whole Manhattan police force did in the some what similar case of Vivian Gordon. At least Griffin Scott finds out who killed Helen Brill Kent. He makes no proverbs and is therefore able to do it in fewer pages than it might have taken Charlie Chan. The Ebony Bed Murder is the July issue of the Mystery League...