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Word: crimed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...CRIME IN CORN WEATHER-Mary M. Atwater-Hought on Mifflin ($2). When old man Breen was killed no one mourned, many had cause to be glad. The little Iowa town's biggest excitement in years made a countywide field-day, but defeated its purpose. A beautifully subtle description of townsfolk, of why murder was done and why neither police nor press knew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Recent Mysteries: May 20, 1935 | 5/20/1935 | See Source »

...SAINT GOES ON-Leslie Charteris -Crime Club ($2). In his best form, Simon Templar twinkles, cuts and shoots his way through three more adventures, involving a ring of jewel thieves, an admiring Peer, a damsel in distress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Recent Mysteries: May 20, 1935 | 5/20/1935 | See Source »

...Erie Stanley Gardner - Morrow ($2). Hard-case Perry Mason steps briskly into his sixth case (the retainer not so fat as formerly), does a bit of quick charity, slyly tricks "The Law," sleeps for once, and emerges triumphant, ready to plunge into the next maelstrom of chicanery and crime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Recent Mysteries: May 20, 1935 | 5/20/1935 | See Source »

...SYNDICATE MURDERS-William R. Randall-Greenberg ($2). A young journalist and a brilliant Jewish detective become involved in a war between the gangs and an anti-crime brain trust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Recent Mysteries: May 20, 1935 | 5/20/1935 | See Source »

JIMMIE DALE AND THE MISSING HOUR -Frank L. Packard-Crime Club ($2). Again the Gray Seal plunges into the Underworld and, exhibiting all his old deftness, quickly repays a debt of honor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Recent Mysteries: May 20, 1935 | 5/20/1935 | See Source »

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