Word: hunchback
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...dinner clothes and an opera hat even while staying in a town defined by the local innkeeper as "the loneliest place in England," is engaged in tracking down an elderly emerald thief who lives in a tower equipped with bloodhounds, secret passages, a beautiful girl, and a masked hunchback with a penchant for strangling people with his bare hands. Typical shot: the criminal-in-chief dropping a rebellious henchman through a trapdoor into quicksand...
...detective of the S. S. Van Dine mystery stories, who found the solution of the Mother Goose pattern in the series of horrible murders involving first Mr. Cochrane Robin in an archery butt, then a gentleman named Sperling, which is sparrow in German, then Mr. Sprigg, and finally a hunchback who resembled Humpty principally in the manner of his end. Footsteps, chess, English voices, higher mathematics, and the Church are used to create suspense, successfully keep your interest, and Basil Rathbone, as Vance, is pleasantly similar to William Powell, who has played the role in other pictures. Best shot: Philo...
...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...
...Hunchback McLoon was a Duffy...