Word: mabel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Collector. In Nottingham, England, police hunted a stranger who got into Mabel Foulkes's house, pushed her into a chair, pulled one of her teeth, fled the scene brandishing it aloft, crying, "What a beauty...
...done time in at least three prisons for big & little swindles. Shortly before she had married unsuspecting Mr. Carr, five years ago, she had been released from Washington State's Walla Walla. Six States were still looking for her. Some of her aliases: Mildred Marie Boniface, Mildred Sidebottom, Mabel Heavens...
...ruins of a bombed house in Camden Town, black-haired Mabel Church, 19, was found naked, strangled with her own underclothes...
...MABEL S. SHAW, Publisher, Dixon Evening Telegraph WM. V. SLOTHOWER, Mayor of the City of Dixon WALTER C. KNACK, President, Dixon Chamber of Commerce Dixon...
...CHUCKLING FINGERS-Mabel Seeley-Crime Club ($2). A subtly contrived campaign to convince a Great Lakes lumberman that his young second wife has homicidal tendencies culminates in murder of his son. A girl cousin helps police sift the suspects. Equals earlier Seeley stories (Crying Sisters, etc.) in craftmanship, characterization, unflagging interest...