Word: crimes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Washington matrons avidly devoured each minute detail of this love-after-40 crime passionnel. It was as if a set of genteel Temple Bailey romancers had wandered by mistake into the raw youthful violence of a James M. Cain plot...
Thus, the hanging of Captain Kidd is a page one crime story. There are fashion jottings on the grey topper and bustle. Significant sports items such as the Sullivan v. Kilrain championship fight bob up. "Gracious Living Today" depicts authentic colonial home furnishings. The books and plays of the times are reviewed, including the London opening of William Shakespeare's The Tempest...
Army, was held for a court-martial. The crime with which he is charged: treason, for which the top punishment is death...
...SKELETONS RATTLE- Frederick C. Davis- Crime Club ($2). The arrival of newlywed Criminologist Hatch and his bride in a sleepy Pennsylvania village precipitates a hecatomb. Four murders and two natural deaths, all linked in the same grisly puzzle, make it a real busman's honeymoon. A shrewdly plotted and super-shivery affair, with logical detecting and a leaven of dese-dose-&-dem humor...
Even to Japan's befuddled man-in-the-street it was plain: the punishment did not fit the crime. Seemingly the two chief strategists were penalized less for Truk than for the bankruptcy of their strategy of an impenetrable sea perimeter...