Word: hunchback
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course, not as simple as that. Other murders followed. One John Sprigg was shot through the middle of his wig. A scholarly hunchback, whom children called Humpty Dumpty, sat on a wall, had a great fall, was found dead. Then came the slaughter of the suspects−an annoying device which S.S. Van Dine used to better effect in The Greene Murder Case. Shrewd readers should be able to pick the culprit among the two remaining suspects; stupid readers would do well to flip a coin...
...forth to explore Rio's splendors, Mr. Hoover made the gesture of dismissing his secret-service guard. He said he felt perfectly safe among Brazilians. Motors carried the visitors up to Hunchback and Sugarloaf Mountains...
Murders. In the early hours of a Philadelphia morning three men with shotguns murdered a hunchback, a month ago. He was weazened, four-foot Hughie McLoon, 27, saloon keeper, prizefight manager, onetime mascot of the Philadelphia Athletics. Standing beneath a street lamp, he made an easy target. The assassins whizzed away into darkness...
...Hunchback McLoon was a Duffy...
...author's genius is undeniable in the earliest story, "Little Herr Friede-mann," the stark, pathetic account of a hunchback, whose reasoned contentment is shattered by his sudden love for a flashing Valkyrish woman. Her cruel scorn for his declared love drives him to drowning himself ludicrously?head in the river, feet on the bank...