Word: doggo
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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NINE - AND DEATH MAKES TEN -Carter Dickson-Morrow ($2). Thuggee on the blacked-out Edwardic, Britain-bound with munitions and nine passengers. Lying doggo in a remote cabin, Sir Henry Merrivale, of Intelligence, hears of it by accident, snorts his way below to ponder a lady's corpse, a vanished Frenchman and duplicate thumbprints. First-rate puzzler...
...starts," muttered Parisians as they watched the streaking Nazi bombers, plainly visible in the skyrocket glare. The first raids spared downtown Paris, but heavy concussions rumbled from the suburbs. Long after the Nazis were gone most citizens lay doggo in the shelters until after sunup. Then suddenly all Paris clanged and tinkled as abandoned alarm clocks went off in empty flats...
...with a smash-bang. Some $400,000 damage had been done to English property. Casualties were a middle-aged Clacton couple, killed in their sleep when the bomber fell, and 162 curious townsfolk injured when she exploded. None was hurt who obeyed the rules, took cover in cellars, lay doggo until the all clear signal. A raid shelter a few yards from the crater was unharmed. While firemen and volunteers were clearing away the ruins, three babies were born in a half-smashed Clacton maternity home. They will have company. Despite the crash, Britain's Home Office is continuing...