Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Forthwith, a good deal of the filling in was done by John H. McEvers, special assistant to Attorney General Cummings who had been sent from Washington to clean up the last big gangster tax case left on the Federal docket. Prosecutor McEvers passed over Flegenheimer's novitiate in crime, which began when he served an apprenticeship under the late Jack ("Legs") Diamond, was interrupted when Flegenheimer went into hiding after his indictment two years ago, and officially ended when, terrified by the Government's bloody drive against the nation's mobsters, he gave himself up at Albany...
...every English crime fancier recalls, the legs, though obviously male, had been femininely peroxided and powdered. Suspicion has been strong that the murdered man had been living with some other man who eventually slew him when threatened with blackmail. Last week Pathologist Spilsbury did much to dash this theory by discovering on the male Brentford Torso three long strands of hair unquestionably female. At the coroner's inquest, Sir Bernard, close-lipped as usual, dropped a quiet hint that he now believes the Waterloo-Brentford man, pieced together by his freckles last week, was murdered by a woman...
...clump! Swish-clump!-two heads rolled in the sand. One of them, declared Nazis with more exuberance than exactitude, was "the head of the first Jew ever decapitated in German history." Otherwise insignificant, Jew Solly Epstein and equally inconsequent Gentile Hans Zeigler were sentenced to death for the Nazi crime of "watching" outside the flat of Horst Wessel during the brawl on Jan. 14, 1930 in which that Nazi martyr was shot by a Communist. The fact that...
...spectacle of Clay Dalzell's suave bar manners are much more stimulating than the mystery which he solves in Star of Midnight, and it will be no surprise to the thirsty audience to learn that a barfly is responsible for the crime. Cinemaddicts who enjoyed The Thin Man, recognized master print for all cocktail and wisecrack crime cinemas, should find Star of Midnight an entertaining and not too sedulous copy. Good shot: Clay Dalzell getting gaily...
...published her first work, The Leavenworth Case, in 1878, nine years before Conan Doyle introduced Sherlock Holmes in A Study in Scarlet. A bestseller, it ran to 150,000 copies, is still in demand. Author Green's favorite plot ingredients: the murderer is the first to announce the crime; someone passing a door hears a conversation, attributes it to the wrong persons; circumstantial evidence always points to the innocent, thus illustrating Author Green's stanch belief in its fallibility. In some 20 of her 36 books, the hero was a master mind named Ebenezer Gryce. Called the world...