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Dates: during 1930-1939
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CRIMEFILE NUMBER 3: FILE ON FENTON AND FARR - Q. Patrick - Morrow ($2.25). Two deaths, both by gunfire in a New Jersey boys' school; five suspects, most of them on the school staff; clues including photographs, lipstick, telegrams, bound in the volume, as in other Crime-files. Good...
...come a year later than it did, because it so happens that working capital is the particular need of industry in 1937. This was made abundantly clear in the first statistical study of the subject published by Business Week last April at the suggestion of Vice President Fenton B. Turck of American Radiator & Standard Sanitary Corp. By the end of last year booming sales had necessitated enormously bigger inventories and inventory costs had jumped with the prices of raw materials. Industrial payrolls, furthermore, had swollen 30% since 1934. Needing cash to meet his current obligations and more cash...
Carousing at a Nice festival, an engagingly flip U. S. detective named Harwood (Edmund Lowe) discovers a corpse, which presently vanishes. Before Harwood can launch a search, a beautiful U. S. insurance claim investigator named Caryl Fenton (Constance Cummings) drags him away to look for some lost jewels in Scotland. When the train is wrecked on the way, Harwood discovers the missing body in the wreckage, shrewdly suspects that the wreck was intentional to hide the murder. He bets the French police inspector on the scene $5.000 that he will find the criminal. There follows, as in The Thirty-Nine...
Pursuing a bland course through all this excitement, Detectives Harwood and Fenton eventually dig through the intrigues of a bogus reform group, pin the crimes on the least suspectable person in a final melee, which, for those cinemaddicts who want their mysteries solved with explicit completeness, is about the only unsatisfying thing in the picture...
Oxford will be represented by Ian Harvey, an ex-President of the Oxford Union Society, and Fenton A.S. Gentry, member of Vincent's Club. Vincent's is the club to which the outstanding athletes in the Undergraduate body belong...