Word: culprit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Scotland Yard fails to prevent a murder, even though the killer ballyhoos his deed in advance. Furthermore the only hint as to the culprit's identity is given by Author Bush, smart manufacturer of alibis, in his prologue. The book was selected by the Crime Club jury for September...
...hunchback, whom children called Humpty Dumpty, sat on a wall, had a great fall, was found dead. Then came the slaughter of the suspects−an annoying device which S.S. Van Dine used to better effect in The Greene Murder Case. Shrewd readers should be able to pick the culprit among the two remaining suspects; stupid readers would do well to flip a coin...
...proposed building. The contractor admitted losing the plans, which he believed to have mislaid on the train, as they had been rolled up on the seat beside him during the trip. A warrant has been sworn out for John King, alias John Doe, but no trace of the culprit had been found up to late last night...
...affirm and Germany accepts the responsibility ... of the war imposed upon them by the aggression of Germany and her allies"; but the Locarno Pact (1925), refers to "the peoples upon whom fell the scourge of the war 1914-1918." Thus Germany has progressed officially, from the status of a culprit self-confessed and solely guilty, to that of membership in a community of pious sufferers. Needless to recall, the hypothesis of sole guilt is bindingly included in an article (No. 231) of the Versailles Treaty, while the quotation from the Locarno Pact is taken from its mere preamble...
...unmoved, even when her bridegroom accepts two charming virgins as a wedding present. Though she refuses to put herself out to please her new master, she proves an able mistress of his women's quarters. Her favorite punishment is to overturn a large jar of beans in a culprit's presence and then require the miserable wretch to pick them up bean by scattered bean. This proves so effective that she rarely has to resort to flogging. On the eve of a great military campaign, Purta, bored, jealous, at last makes herself attractive to Temugin, and accompanies...