Word: misse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...right by it without knowing. You might not have noticed the Fenway nun, black and in black habit, waiting with her radio till the game ends, when she'll get to her feet with the donation basket already full of quarters to make it look good. And you could miss the Fenway paraphernalia vendors--booths on a city street in Kenmore Square are nothing special. going left from Brookline Ave. to Lansdowne, you wouldn't know that the huge wall on your right, grimy the color of the warehouse and shop buildings across from it, was the backside...
...England. The spice of the title is a wordy, forty-fivish general practitioner anxious to pull out of provincial Birkden as soon as he can track down a vanished patient. Noreen Wilkes is certain to die if she goes without treatment for a rare kidney disease. She has been missing for three weeks when Dr. Salt goes to the police convinced that Miss Wilkes has been murdered. Next, the impeccably respectable E. Culworth, bookseller and stationer, also disappears. Salt-his first name is never used-is joined in the countdown by Maggie Culworth, the bookseller's no-nonsense daughter...
...rainy cemetery scene in which the dead articulate their thoughts (an idea Wilder got from the early cantos of Dante's Purgatorio) and Emily returns from the dead to relive her twelfth birthday (a device Wilder had already tried in his novel The Woman of Andros). Here Miss Mulgrew fails to evince the intensity and luminosity that better actresses have managed to summon...
...authors will be unfamiliar to all but cultists. Even the worst of them, though, retain a kind of campy charm. For if the paraphernalia of detection have not changed much over the past 100 years, the women clearly have. In The Stir Outside the Café Royal (1898), demure Miss Van Snoop captures a notorious murderer and then weeps for 30 minutes. Observes the author: "She had earned the luxury of hysterics." Not so Jerry Wheeler, an ex-stripper who, in Angel Face (1937), is all hobnails, barbed wire and mean mouth. About one criminal, she says in her characteristic...
...keep "the Word of Wisdom"); an early marriage that produced two daughters and a desperate infidelity; flight from Salt Lake City to sinful Los Angeles; a second marriage to an aspiring musician who hurries back to the car after his wedding meal so he won't miss the Top 100 on the radio...