Word: handbagged
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...check proved futile, but Fabian's guess about trucks turned out to be right anyway. When the dead woman's handbag was fished out of a lake far off the A2O road, Fabian traced the course of the bag up an old millstream to a cider works near the road. There he found a pile of newly delivered bricks. On a hunch, he asked for the truckman who had delivered them. The man gave a false name, but Fabian pried loose his real one and a criminal record: "Harold Hagger-16 convictions, including assault on a woman." Hagger...
...shout, and a gang of Mau Mau thugs, led by the ranch's male cook, burst into the living room, brandishing panga knives. One man seized Mrs. Hesselburger by the throat, bent her across a chair; the rest set upon Mrs. Raynes-Simson, who grabbed her revolver, a handbag necessity for most Kenya white women these days, and blazed away. She shot two men dead, one of them the cook. Then, taking careful aim, Mrs. Raynes-Simson killed the man who was struggling with Mrs. Hesselburger. The Mau Mau fled, with both women in hot pursuit. Dorothy Raynes-Simson...
...gone, and they had folded up the band's chairs and stacked them in front of Cabit's Pharmacy. The streetlights went on, and traffic began to move along Broadway again. The woman in the gray coat took her Saturday Evening Post pages and folded them carefully into her handbag. "Didn't she have a nice smile? She looked so proud of him. And weren't those children darling? They didn't move once while he was talking." She smiled and pointed to her handbag. "It's too bad they had to rush them off like that. He would...
...Elizabeth, a witness of the murders, had fled toward the river, but the killer had overtaken her, clubbed her to death with the butt of his rifle. If money was his objective, as it possibly was, the killer had overlooked 5,000 francs ($14) in Lady Drummond's handbag. In the river, police found the murder weapon: a U.S. Army M1 carbine...
...bullet whizzed through her handbag. Léon ran home, downed some sleeping pills, turned on the gas jets in the kitchen, aimed the pistol at his own head and pulled the trigger. Superficially wounded, he woke up in the hospital soon afterward to find himself charged with attempted murder. "But," he stammered, "she tried to murder me too!" "Eh, bien," the gendarmes sighed and went out after Madeleine...