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...OPERA MURDERS-Kirby Williams -Scribner ($2). Costumed for their greatest roles, three sopranos die. Anthropological deduction nabs the fiend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murders of the Month: Mar. 27, 1933 | 3/27/1933 | See Source »

DOCUMENTS OF MURDER-T. C. H. Jacobs-Macaulay ($2). Fiend Bronkhorst, master spy, kills casually thrice a day. Scotland Yard and Secret Service, hand in hand, win through in time to prevent world cataclysm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murders of the Month: Jan. 30, 1933 | 1/30/1933 | See Source »

...MYSTERY OF THE FRIGHTENED LADY-Edgar Wallace-Crime Club ($2). Stranglers work in Mark's Priory. Scotland Yard Boys Tanner & Totty clip the fiend at the end of a red scarf trail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murders of the Month: Jan. 30, 1933 | 1/30/1933 | See Source »

...fancy to the doctor, offered to make his fortune. His assistant, Nurse Martha, an angel in thin disguise, fell in love with him. His cases kept him busy: a dying old woman who wanted to be kept alive long enough to say good-by to her son; a dope-fiend who had once been a nobleman; his beautiful sister who was almost ready to sell herself to Stephanson; the clever surgeon who had gambled away his reputation and his fortune. By the time the short passage was over Dr. Wohlmut had had enough concentrated experience to learn a new thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Floating Grand Hotel | 9/5/1932 | See Source »

...Archer, a colored physician almost as erudite as Frimbo himself. Dr. Archer's suggestions proved invaluable to Detective Dart who seated himself in Frimbo's parlor and proceeded to examine suspects: the undertaker; the undertaker's wife ; a Negro porter named Easley Jones; a dope fiend; a "numbers" runner; two light-hearted Negro bucks named Bubber Brown and Jinx Jenkins; a gaunt female Baptist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Omnibus of Crime | 8/1/1932 | See Source »

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