Word: culprit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...queerest person I have ever met." Three years ago Gene Howe performed his greatest journalistic coup. An Amarillo lawyer named A. D. Payne, suspected of killing his wife by placing a bomb in their automobile, went to the News-Globe office and asked Editor Howe to find the real culprit. With the aid of the Kansas City Star's crack Crime Reporter A. B. MacDonald, Editor Howe found that the real culprit was A. D. Payne...
...SULU SEA MURDERS-Van Wyck Mason-Crime Club ($2). Captain North of the Army Intelligence perspires freely while solving murder in a tropical outpost. Pearls, meteorology and domestic polyangle show the clues to the culprit...
...every case where the crime was committed to meet a pressing need I propose to inquire whether I cannot, by quashing legal proceedings or granting a pardon, make it possible for the culprit to take part once more, with his head high, in the battle against economic misery...
GENIUS IN MURDER-E. R. Punshon- Houghton, Mifflin ($2). Scotland Yard finds the victim in his own tomb, the missing pearls on a dewy bush, the culprit bleeding...
...MURDER CASE-S. S. Van Dine-Scribner ($2). There were half-a-dozen suspects when Heath, with Philo Vance's help, discovered that the corpse in the locked room really represented murder, not suicide. Erudition on Chinese ceramics and Scottie-breeding (carefully annotated) enables Vance to catch the culprit...