Word: crimes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Italy the Army suddenly had a crime wave on its hands. Soldiers on leave in Rome swapped rumors of robbery and murder. Bandits had held up the chauffeur of Polish Lieut. General Wladyslaw Anders when he was returning in the general's super-Cadillac from delivering the general to the airport. Military supplies were stolen. A cafe owner was shot to death. Nervous citizens stayed out of alleys, wondered what would happen when the weather got colder and hungry desperadoes grew more desperate...
This is one mystery that keeps you guessing, not only about who did it but about what the crime was. Detective Andrews shows a fine knowledge of everything from cheap Scotch whiskey to "Brooklyn dames" as he uses clues that would have stumped Sherlock Holmes to unravel the mess and corral the miss...
...this reason the spotlight has shone hard and hot on Democratic Candidate Harry S. Truman, the junior Senator from Missouri. Anti-New Deal newspapers have examined the Truman record and background with the zeal of ballistics experts, the energy of crime reporters...
Next came Pierre Boero, Georges Neroni, Pierre Lambert. They had served in Joseph Darnand's Milice, had played minor roles in a major crime-the assassination of Georges Mandel, great Third Republican, bitter foe of fascism, who was kidnapped from a Paris prison, murdered in the Forest of Fontainebleau. They were acquitted of the murder, convicted of aiding the Germans. For Lambert, 20 years; for Boero and Neroni, death...
...Raymond Massey). To entertain Wanley, who seems distracted, the D. A. regales him with the developments of the sensational new murder. Detail by detail the professor is forced to listen to a relentless but far-from-boring reconstruction, from footprints, spots of blood and bits of hair, of the crime he has committed...