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Dates: during 1935-1935
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Detective Cornish had been in Scotland Yard 18 years before he worked on a case that fitted the pattern of detective fiction. Portly "Cammi" Grizzard was a brilliant and resourceful man, a Jewish diamond merchant, notorious receiver of stolen goods, kindly leader of a large and loyal organization of thieves and spies. But police could not get evidence against him. Once his house was raided while he was dining the buyers of a stolen necklace; police found nothing, because "Cammi" dropped the necklace in his soup, calmly went on with his dinner. But when in 1913 "Cammi" Grizzard stole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Drudgery of Detection | 7/8/1935 | See Source »

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