Word: killers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...where classmates are apt to turn up of a morning with dyed hair or altered features. These Lds thought nothing of playing such parts in Arsenic as a pair of motherly old poisoners, a drama critic who loathes the theater, a clank who thinks he is Teddy Roosevelt, a killer who tries to look like Boris Karloff. Old hands at small-fry roles, as grown menaces the kids virtually never missed a cue muffed a line, threw away a laugh nor bungled a shudder. Down front a lot of their coevals were on the edge of their small seats...
...examined the bones and the paths of lead shot embedded in them, then reconstructed a picture of the killing which corresponded exactly with the survivor's story that he had crouched and shot his brother while he came at him with upraised knife. Result: the charge against the killer was changed from murder to manslaughter...
...LADY IN THE LAKE-Raymond Chandler-Knopf ($2). Mr. Marlowe, forthright and uninhibited California shamus (private detective), is hired to trace the missing wife of a perfume manufacturer, encounters three murders, trades punches with the police, and finally drives a tragic and cunningly concealed killer to his death. An astringent, hardbitten, expertly constructed and convincingly characterized story of the just-tough-enough school...
Chick Bohlen's assistant on Russian affairs is dark-haired, handsome G. Frederick Reinhardt, who served in Moscow in 1941. Once known as the ranking "lady killer" of Vienna's salons, he has now settled to hard and conscientious work. Reinhardt knows Russia well, speaks fluent Russian, more than matches Bohlen's dislike for the Soviet Union...
SALLY'S IN THE ALLEY-Norbert Davis-Morrow ($2). Carstairs, a dignified, sniffy and deadly Great Dane, helps his detective owner catch the killer of a cinemactress and break up a Western spy ring. A rich morsel for readers who like them tough and raucous...