Word: craddock
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THOMAS J, CRADDOCK...
...officially pegged at $1.11, the tourist can get it on the black market for anywhere from 25? to 66?. But it is also dangerous, as two young American tourists discovered last week. Hauled before a Leningrad court were Buel Ray Wortham, 25, of North Little Rock, Ark., and Craddock M. Gilmour, 24, of Salt Lake City, who had made the mistake of talking about their black-market dealings in the presence of their Intourist guide. In addition, Wortham was accused of stealing a "national treasure" from his Leningrad hotel room - a 22-in. statue depicting a Russian bear that...
...pulled out all the stops. Noting that the trial had been "followed with concern by a modest grey-haired man" - his client's father - Lawyer Semyon Khayfits cited Gilmour's "good reputation at the University of Utah." "In the faraway town of Salt Lake City," he intoned, "Craddock Gilmour's return is anxiously awaited by his mother...
...even this contrivance can be overlooked; Miss Rutherford's uproarious detecting saves all. She early flings her gauntlet to the official investigator, Inspector Craddock, (When he refuses to admit that old Enderby may have been done in, Miss Marple swings her cloak 'round her shoulder like a Caesar crossed and announces imperiously, "I shall have to investigate this myself!") and does not retrieve it until the last bit of evidence--symbolized by the plaster of paris mold she carries in her pocket--has fallen into place...