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...better than any other form of fiction, reach their sales peak in August. Less extraordinary than The Conjure-Man Dies but still appealing, appalling is Dead Hands Reaching in which Dallas Gantry returns to her small-town home of Willow Valley and finds it seething with murder. Her husband, Jurden Keye, is the meanest man in town. He gets the knife before anyone else in town but he is dead by that time anyway. A bullet killed him. A strumpet who thinks Dallas did it is murdered presently. The third victim is Jurden Keye's mean-tempered female housekeeper. Detective...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Omnibus of Crime | 8/1/1932 | See Source »

Wood. Lumberman Walter C. Paepoke of Chicago is president of the Chicago Mill and Lumber Corp., largest U. S. hardwood company, a consolidation effected last week, of four southern hardwood companies (Chicago Mill and Lumber Co., Penrod Jurden, R. J. Darnell and Kurz Brothers) and their subsidiaries. Assets: over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Mergers: Nov. 12, 1928 | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

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