Word: culprit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wiggins, a hotel clerk, was the culprit in The Adventure of the Mother Goose Murders, that week's twist in the Adventures of Ellery Queen, a four-month-old radio hour in which armchair experts assemble evidence from a dramatization of a mystery, spend the last twenty minutes of the show trying to put the finger on the murderer. What happened when the WBBM hose burst was a better clew to the interest of radio fans than any radio survey...
...Admiral Scheer was really the culprit, the Allies had a mean raider to track down. She is one of Germany's three pocket battleships.* Limited under the Treaty of Versailles to "coast defense" vessels not exceeding 10,000 tons, the ingenious Germans effected economies such as substituting welding for riveting, alloys for heavy metal, then armed the vessels to the crow's nests...
...sent to other parts of the country. Heavily armed German patrols roamed the streets with orders to fire^at open windows. Day later, 2,000 reinforcements with machine guns, armored cars and field kitchens deployed in the market place and began-a house-to-house search for the culprit. A reward of 100,000 Czech crowns ($3,330) was offered for information leading to arrest of the killer. One thousand Czechs were arrested; an unnamed nurse, whom Czechs called a "great patriot," was questioned. The Czech mayor of Kladno was supplanted by a German commissar...
Charlie Chan in Reno (Twentieth Century-Fox). A beautiful divorcee gets more than she bargained for, and Charlie Chan II (Sidney Toler) adds another tour to Twentieth Century-Fox's private Baedeker of Crime. He gets the culprit, but there seems to be more chin than Chan in the process...
...PROBLEM OF THE GREEN CAPSULE-John Dickson Carr-Harper ($2). A man is poisoned in the presence of three witnesses, none of whom can tell what happened. But ingenious Dr. Fell catches the culprit. Intricate and astute...