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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...courage to tell about the murder. Immediately Mrs. di Rocco with a posse of policemen set out to find her boy. All night they trampled the marshes and woods while up in a tree crouched Johnny. In the morning he came down to face his fate. The searchers had found a scarcecrow, its sawdust head pierced by a bullet, prostrate in the corn...
...Guider Park, Brooklyn, one Matteo Aurierno, 26, was found wandering in the dark, bleeding from deep stabs in his neck and hands. At the police station he related that, while strolling, he was thrown down and slashed by a "personable" woman who then fled, chortling...
...doorbell rang, and when the door was opened a corpse propped against the outside fell into the apartment. The man who answered the bell had been talking over the telephone when the bell rang- the girl at the other end of the wire vouched for that. Bloody gloves were found in the night porter's pocket. One groundfloor tenant was a notorious jewel thief. The landlord and the top-floor married couple were also suspects. The murderer, like everyone else, was, indeed, indoors-where any of Author Kennedy's readers will remain who begin reading the book there...
...Irish uncle to be hanged. Needless to say, they were rejoined after Garrett had several times been wounded, and Author Byrne had avoided a solution of his original problem. But in this last novel he wove, as ever, the Hibernian, theatrical beauty of a style that many found so "brave" in The Wind Bloweth, so "radiant" in Messer Marco Polo, so "heart-wringing" in O'Malley of Shanganagh, so "tender" in Blind Raftery...
While en route from Liverpool to the United States, Professor Garrod lost his accumulated lectures of five years, and has not yet recovered them. As a result he has found it necessary to begin anew his writing, in order to prepare for the Norton lectures here...