Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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EVEN DOCTORS DIE-Lindsay Anson-Crime Club ($2). Reporter Peter Allen sticks his neck out when he tries to solve the murders of two famed British doctors and a nurse. Provocative plot, mixing a hard-boiled American manner with stiffish Scotland Yard technique...
Dick Tracy, Sherlock Holmes, and even Hawkshaw the detective were discredited when a refutation of their methods of crime detection was unveiled today in the form of a volume entitled "Time Budgets of Human Behavior," by Pitirim A. Sorokin, professor of Sociology, and Clarence Q. Berger, a former colleague...
Sorokin declares that "Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, and other famous detectives always start with the main clue; find the motive and the criminal is discovered." The professor declares that crime cannot be traced to the door by mere discovery of a motive, since a motive can manifest itself in many overt acts...
...another nine years were spent at Harvard analyzing it. Now Anthropologist Hooton is ready to release his findings. The Harvard University Press is to publish a huge technical monograph in three volumes for scientists. For laymen, many-sided Dr. Hooton last week published a shorter and simpler book, Crime and the Man* which put the salient facts of his investigation in lighter form...
...lightest element in Crime and the Man are the 24 charts which Dr. Hooton himself drew to illustrate his text. An amateur sketcher with a humorous line that many a cartoonist might envy, he calls his illustrations "nasty little human figures" (see opposite page...