Word: killers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Aggrieved as they might have been, her old friends would hardly have murdered her. One of Sapphire's earlier landladies more accurately suggests the killer's motive, asks: "Would you be pleased with a brass sovereign...
...Yard moves closer to the killer, the script unfortunately moves closer to propaganda, repeats its brothers-under-the-skin theme so often that the point is blunted. Sapphire is a novel mystery that pulls no punches, but it would have been even better if it had not started swinging with the left...
...come alive at any moment, and last week, swinging with power and precision, he came alive. Fighting his way out Of a 25-game slump, Rocky drove in five runs to raise his total to 88, second in the league to the 91 of Washington's Harmon ("The Killer") Killebrew, hit two home runs to boost his figure to 34, just two short of Killebrew's total. It hardly mattered that Rocky's batting average at week's end was only .272. He was paid for the long ball and he was delivering...
...seventh of all the world's people suffer from trachoma. No killer, but the cause of maddening itching and burning in the eyes, it impairs vision, often leads to blindness. Now, after 50 years of frustrating efforts to find incontrovertible proof that the disease is caused by a virus, Britain's Medical Research Council reports that researchers have closed the circle of evidence. It was a blind man who helped them to see the proof they needed...
...their characters and backgrounds believable that the reader is persuaded to accept the whole bag of outrageous melodrama: hanky-panky with a million-dollar will, baffling telephone calls in the middle of the night, mysterious footprints on the terrace, the fatal mugging of a key suspect, pursuit by a killer through a raging summer storm. Deserving of Favorite Sleuth status: Detective Nathan Shapiro of Homicide. Manhattan West, a shambling, sad-eyed man who suspects that he is not really up to his job and ought to be pounding a beat in Brooklyn. Shapiro asks what seem...