Word: hannam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...result, after a series of visits by smoothly operating Detective Herbert ("The Count") Hannam, was the arrest of kindly Dr. Adams. Last week, in a preliminary court hearing to determine whether the doctor should stand trial for murder, a prosecutor for the Crown declared in so many blunt words that Mrs. Morrell had not died of cerebral thrombosis, but "because she was poisoned by drugs which Dr. Adams administered...
Jigsaw Fragments. The Yard sent Detective Superintendent Herbert Hannam, a homicide specialist whose quiet, aristocratic looks have inspired the press to call him "The Count." From London dozens of newsmen burst into Eastbourne like an explosion of profanity at a church tea. They camped in once-quiet hotel lobbies, queued up at the municipal clerk's office to buy samples of death certificates, trailed police cars and pounded on the doors of frightened old ladies. They dredged up every rumor in town-and their editors printed whatever they thought they could get away with...
Often the stories seemed almost incomprehensible jigsaw fragments except to those aware-as all Eastbourne is-of some rumors that the papers dared not print. For example, on Page One, London's conservative Daily Telegraph merely reported that Hannam had interviewed the 72-year-old mother of Sir John Hunt, who led the Mt. Everest expedition, but offered no clue as to why or what resulted beyond the fact that she "described an incident which occurred at a small bridge party she gave about twelve years ago." Another account told of reports that letters written by relatives to aging...