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Sometimes over-mental, illogical, actionless, Suspicion has enough Grade-A Hitchcock in it to be notable, even in failure. Best example: a Government crime-laboratory expert, carving his broiled fowl at the dinner table with the deadly scalpel strokes of a surgeon dissecting a cadaver, pauses to comment: "A very...
Shanghai, as Hollywood viewed it, was a bright and glamorous city of glittering vice; the real Shanghai was a powerful economic organism sucking nourishment from the trade of the Yangtze valley. To day both Shanghais are dead-and within the putrefaction of its mist-shrouded cadaver the maggots of destruction...
THE RIDDLE OF THE SANDS-Erskine Childers-Dodd, Mead ($2). From Brunsbüttel to Borkum two Englishmen poked a seven-tonner between the shifting Frisian sands and into Imperial Germany's British-invasion preparations. No ordinary spy story, this is a reprint of a soundly calked yarn of...
"He's in a hearse outside," the woman explained. The clerk's eyes widened. "I must get him to Boston," pleaded the woman, "his funeral's tomorrow." Too busy was the harried clerk to find out whether the woman had intended upending the cadaver in the other...
Two fresh shudders went up the spine of Cleveland, Ohio last week. Negroes picking over a lakefront dump found the dissected body of a young white woman, wrapped in butcher's paper. From its condition it had apparently been kept on ice for some time before being buried on...