Word: ladyes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In Books (TIME, March 6) you reviewed a mystery novel entitled The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler, with these words: "Detective Marlowe is plunged into a mess of murderers, thugs, and psychopaths who make the characters of Dashiell Hammett and James Cain look like something out of Godey's...
Did not Edgar Allan Poe, the father as well as acknowledged master of the detective story and murder mystery, have several of his horror tales published in Godey's Lady's Book? Please correct me if I am wrong.
- Reader Stockman is right. Poe's The Cask of Amontillado, The Oblong Box, Thou Art the Man, first appeared in Godey's Lady's Book.-ED.
Lady Astor's story was simultaneously corroborated by Playwright George Bernard Shaw, also a Clivedenite,who wrote in Liberty: "You meet everybody worth meeting, rich or poor, at Cliveden. . . . According to English notions all Americans are insanely hospitable. But Lady Astor is phenomenal even among American hostesses. ... I could...
The Lady Vanishes (Margaret Lockwood, Dame May Whitty; TIME, Nov.