Word: crimeds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Textbook. In Little Rock, police caught up with a youth who had broken into an automobile, made off with a magazine called Crime Does...
...second decisive event came when he decided to invent, for use in short stories, a scientific method of crime detection based on the deduction-by-observation habits of Professor Bell. He sketched out a short novel called A Tangled Skein, involving a detective named Sherrinford Holmes and a narrator named Ormond Sacker. Finally, because it sounded better, he changed Sherrinford to Sherlock, and Ormond Sacker to the simpler name of Dr. John Watson. He changed the story's title to A Study in Scarlet. Publishers Ward, Locke & Co. bought it outright (for ?25) and published it in their Christmas...
...obliged to revive Sherlock Holmes-and the scenes at the railway bookstalls, says a contemporary, "were worse than anything I ever saw at a bargain sale." He demonstrated his own detective brilliance when a colored clergyman was sentenced to seven years in jail for a crime that Doyle was convinced he had never committed. Using Holmes's own methods, Doyle tracked down the real criminal and vindicated the imprisoned parson...
...drinkers. He has worked for the U.S. Public Health Service, the World Health Organization, the Research Council on Problems of Alcohol and as chief of preventive medicine for the Twelfth Air Force in Italy. He does not denounce alcohol as the root of all evils. Says he: "Traffic accidents, crime, promiscuity and divorce go deeper and far beyond alcohol...
...Norwegian sheriff and two Germans walked up to Odd Nansen's house and arrested him. Odd was the son of Fridtjof Nansen, the famed Arctic explorer,* a well-known architect and a friend of Norway's royal family (which was his crime...