Word: middenshot
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Dates: during 1953-1953
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...WEATHER IN MIDDENSHOT (280 pp.) -Edgar Mittelholzer-John...
...Herbert Jarrow is the hero of Author Edgar Mittelholzer's serio-comic melodrama, The Weather in Middenshot. Until he breaks the back of his new novel with a "message," Author Mittelholzer keeps it jumping with the same comic-sardonic flair that made Shadows Move Among Them (TIME, Sept. 17, 1951) an ingaging satire of a British Guiana Utopia...
...warning comes true one late autumn day, when a pathological killer gets loose in Middenshot. With balmy cunning, Herbert lures him and a Middenshot rapist to the coal shed on the pretext of helping them evade the police, and shoots a hypodermic of hydrocyanic acid into each. Before anyone has a chance to discover Herbert's private executions, he and a pair of philosophical detectives have more than enough time to labor Author Mittelholzer's pet thesis, i.e., criminals are born, not made. His further contention: eugenics experts should be given the job of blotting out young Hitlers...
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