Word: carres
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Instead, Sam Carr, like a good Communist, went back on his promise and headed right into the spy ring operated by the Soviet Military Attaché Colonel Zabotin. Documents niched by Igor Gouzenko from Zabotin's files showed Carr's record. It detailed various payments of Moscow money to him, among them $3,000 to bribe an official who issued a false passport for a Russian agent in California. That bribe is one of the counts in the Mounties' warrants charging Carr with violating the Official Secrets Act and the Criminal Code. Last week Canada...
...LIFE OF SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE (304 pp.)-John Dickson Carr-Harper...
...from Baker Street could have outsmarted the whole German Intelligence system. And readers of this new biography will feel not only that Arthur Conan Doyle was the one man who could have created Sherlock Holmes, but that Doyle's whole life made the creation inevitable. For, as Biographer Carr clearly shows, Doyle and Holmes were at heart one & the same person...
...Carr (an American who has spent most of his adult life in England) is the first biographer to get free access to Sir Arthur's huge stock of letters and manuscripts. Since Carr himself is a talented contriver of whodunits (as "Carter Dickson" he is also the creator of Detective Sir Henry Merrivale), mystery fans are likely to expect his Life to be first rate. They may be a little disappointed. The Life is highly valuable as the most definitive job to date, but some of its fine feast of facts has been spoiled by the way they have...
Where a more seasoned biographer would have stood aside as much as possible and let his eloquent hero speak for himself, Chronicler Carr has not been able to resist taking nearly all the words out of Doyle's mouth and saying them in his own less effective way. It is a tribute to Doyle that not even this defect is enough to prevent him from towering out of the pages as what he was-a many-sided, fascinating man whose stunning vitality and forcefulness mark him as one of the most striking as well as one of the last...