Word: jewells
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...NINE TAILORS-Dorothy L. Sayers -Har court, Brace ($2). An emergency campanologist, and then most trusted detective, Lord Peter Wimsey assumes the protectorate of Fenchurch and its Rector. Against a background of bell-clanging is first the jewel robbery of 20 years ago; then a murdered man's body in a newly opened grave. Connecting the two, Wimsey solves the crime...
Innocent of violent crime, the cracksman (Robert Montgomery) finds himself embarrassed by the possession of the pilfered jewel, refuses the entreaties of his accomplices to chuck it in the Thames instead he rescues the finance of Scotland Yard's commissioner's daughter from the charge of being Mr. X, falls in love with the daughter, attracts the attention and suspicion of the sleuths...
...murderers dead by hanging or their own hand. For the 21st, the murder of a language teacher from Cyprus, the Yard nabbed a man but lost a conviction on the evidence of ballistics experts. Only one big jewel robbery marred the year. But what made "Boom" Trenchard smile under his military mustache is the strange calm that has fallen over London since Jan. 1 : not one murder, not one big robbery...
...death. Next he worked on Go Daigo's army with bribes. Finally in 1335 he set himself up as Shogun at Kamakura. Go Daigo, refusing to recognize him, fled south to Yoshino but remembered to take the sacred mirror of the Sun Goddess, the sacred jewel and the sacred sword-symbols of his right to reign. Takauji. well aware that his title of Shogun was empty as long as it lacked the sanction of a reigning descendant of the Sun Goddess, looked for a Puppet Emperor. By 1336 Japan presented the strange picture of an Empire straddling two Emperors...
...purely and simply a play-up to the inimitable James. Cagney twists his mat face into all sorts of hyena snarls; e bungs the ladies in the snout, and telescopes their jaws as the occasion requires; he enters the picture as a tough usher, graduates to the jewel thief class, kicks up a jump to a movie star's berth, and finishes the whirlwind by aiding the police in a running machine-gun duel with the old gang, in the course of which the old gang is almost totally exterminated. Naturally, that Cagney trademark, rough treatment of the squooshy...