Word: killers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sweet song into what traditional troubadours will call a purely imaginary key. Author Breuer is a woman but she writes her story in the masculine first person. Her feminine peers may see in her novel the projection of a feminine daydream : how it would feel to be a lady-killer...
...PERFECT ALIBI-C. St. John Sprigg -Crime Club ($2). All suspects have alibis when the armament king is murdered. Best are those of killer and victim, which are pierced when a smart young reporter helps the police. Jekyll-and-Hyde motif...
...smalltime automobile thief, hold-up man. bank robber. But he did not become a headline lawbreaker until last year when, under the name of George ("Baby Face") Nelson, he turned up in the gang of the late John Dillinger. There he won himself a reputation as a "crazy killer" with a paranoiac hatred of police. After he had killed Federal Agent W. Carter Baum during an ambush at the Little Bohemia roadhouse at Spider Lake, Wis. the Department of Justice marked him down for certain death...
...Never officially revealed has been the actual killer of John Dillinger. But on news of Hollis' death last week a Federal agent in Chicago blurted: "Damn them! Hollis killed Dillinger, and now they...
Most audiences will spot the murderer easily, long before the Inspector (C. Aubrey Smith) breaks down a mendacious confession, obtains a truthful one, and benignly subscribes to the general idea that the killer was only a slightly foolish person who sought to escape a stuffy background...