Word: killers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plot is transparent from the beginning and quite naturally worked out; and the two minor characters do their work in a convincing manner. It is the story of a writer, a lady killer who must always be a sophisticated fop; at the same time having the sense to realize that he must marry money to have his necessary good time a light story amusingly done...
...American Whaling Co. Aboard her are 69 oldtime Norwegian whalers. In charge of the expedition is Captain Olaf Stokken of Sunnyfield, N. J.; in charge of the vessel is Captain Johannes Smith of Freeport, L. I. Off Georgia the Frango will be joined by four small "killer" boats, will then proceed to the Antarctic. Unfamiliar in this region is the U. S. flag, for the large-scale Antarctic whaling industry is conducted by English, Norwegian and Danish vessels, many of which are controlled by Anglo-Norwegian Holdings, Ltd., whose shares are traded in on the New York Curb...
...purchasers who have been running the business since the brothers retired five years ago, are two more Underwoods, each a vice president: C. Thomas, son of Elmer; E. Roy, son of Bert. The other new owners are President Ben D. Jennings, Laurence E. Rubel, Artist-Illustrator Lejaren 'a Killer, M. D. Behrend, Leo G. Hessler...
...varied panel: an Irish contractor, a Greek restaurant proprietor, a commercial artist, an Italian grocer, the manager of a carburetor factory, a millionaire, a German shopkeeper, a certified public accountant, a garage owner, a Jewish garment-manufacturer, an ex-soldier, a failure. The last chapter tells about the killer, his preposterous motive for his preposterous crimes, what these twelve men voted to do with him. Author Thayer has saved his case histories from being boring by his brisk narration, his breezy bits of salaciousness; the sexual life of his jurymen is as varied as their nationalities, and their author tells...
...police meanwhile progressed slowly in finding Lingle's killer. A grand jury indicted Frank Foster, arrested in Los Angeles as onetime owner of the "belly gun" with which Lingle was shot. The same day, detectives arrested one Jack Zuta, Moran-Aiello gangster, suspected instigator of the murder. Soon released, Zuta was being given "safe conduct" through the loop district in a detective lieutenant's car, when three men opened fire on him. A street car motorman was killed. While the detective fought it out with the assailants, Zuta fled, unhurt, to hide from police and gunmen alike...