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LILIES FOR MADAME-Hugh Austin- Crime Club ($2). A snarl of theft and blackmail involves an obscure girl hired to impersonate a New York nightclub singer on a Caribbean cruise. A vigorous tale, with suspense, humor, excellent dialogue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mysteries of the Month: Jun. 27, 1938 | 6/27/1938 | See Source »

MURDER MAKES A MERRY WIDOW- Robert George Dean-Crime Club ($2). Two private detectives solve the murder of a Midwest newspaper columnist, who in his spare time dabbles in blackmail. Plot: ingenious. Action: swift. Unless a reader is tired of the tough, hard-drinking detectives, a good buy or borrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mysteries of the Month: Jun. 27, 1938 | 6/27/1938 | See Source »

Colonel Charles R. Apted '06, Superintendent of Caretakers and head of the Yard Police, Chief Timothy Leahy of the Cambridge Police, and a student were the victims yesterday of a hoax involving the alleged blackmail of the undergraduate by a girl who signed her name, "Bev, the Clutch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BLACKMAIL JOKESTERS HOAX APTED AND LEAHY | 6/8/1938 | See Source »

...will fight this thing to the end," asserted the student, and promptly got in touch with Apted, giving him the letter and reluctantly parting with the photograph. The colonel, who has been kept busy of late tracking down the leader of the blackmail racker centering around the Yard, quickly seized what...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BLACKMAIL JOKESTERS HOAX APTED AND LEAHY | 6/8/1938 | See Source »

...seaplane, patrolled Boston's harbor for the Naval Reserve, looking for German U-boats, spotted a whale. He also invented a mechanism by which airplanes could pick up objects while in flight. As an officer of Boston's Watch & Ward Society, he once went after a blackmail gang so strenuously that he was indicted for conspiracy but acquitted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Solar Attack | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

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