Word: clue
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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WHEN LAST I DIED-Gladys Mitchell -Knopf ($2). This marks the welcome reappearance of Mrs. Adela Bradley, elderly, erudite and sardonic British dabbler in deduction. From an old diary she gets her first clue to a trio of brutal slayings, holds an eerie investigation of a houseful of poltergeists, and finally scotches a cunning criminal. Slow-motion at times, but a treat for connoisseurs...
...exceptionally good thriller by the English author of The Wheel Spins (filmed as The Lady Vanishes). A plague of vitriolic and well-informed anonymous notes to supposedly impeccable village worthies changes a bucolic paradise into a midden of fear, suspicion and death. Investigator Ignatius Brown follows a slim clue to a startling conclusion...
...clue to the shake-up may lie in the fact that in the first eleven issues of 1942 the number of pages of Post advertising has averaged 20.2% below the same eleven issues of last year, with the decline apparently growing. A decline of 20% in Post advertising would mean a loss of about 575 pages in a year, or between $4,000,000 and $5,000,000 in revenue. (All Curtis publications made only $1,628,386 in the first nine months of 1941.) When a magazine starts taking that kind of loss, somebody has to take...
...clue to Rommel's action could be found in the British statement several weeks ago that three out of five ships from Axis convoys trying to reach Libya were being sunk. The other two ships, bringing supplies, weapons and men, had given Erwin Rommel strength enough to strike back at the British...
What was happening to the 16,000,000 as the Japanese poured in? There was sparse news to give the U.S. a clue. In Washington, Joaquín Miguel Elizalde, Philippine Resident Commissioner, admitted that he was perplexed at the reports that came from the islands. Boyish, athletic Mike Elizalde gave up his suite at the Shoreham Hotel and took modest living quarters on the fourth floor of the redbrick Philippine Commonwealth Building. For Mike Elizalde, as for all Filipinos to greater or lesser degree, the change meant a test of the Filipino character as it has not been tested...