Word: murdered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Linaker and Ricardo Cortez do their best to make a second rate murder picture. "the Mystery of Dr. Harrigan," take a mildly gruesome and gently thrilling tenor. One cannot, however, work up much of a lather over this murder of an unpopular M.D. in a private hospital...
...Every Saturday Night" and "The Preview Murder Mystery," contrary to the conventional double-feature bill that relies on one first-class picture to draw the public and lets the other pass as a sop to time, are both highly amusing. The two movies at the Paramount and Fenway, though not exceptional, have no periods of "let-down" and are consistently entertaining...
Reginald Denny, with his nicely twisted gentleman's moustache is the man who somewhat naively solves "The Preview Murder Mystery." The plot hinges upon a cinema director's suspicion that his actress-wife, Gail Patrick, is in love with the hero of a film which he has just finished. Threatening notes warn the actor that he will never live through the preview, and true to form, he doesn't. Two more murders are committed before Denny, a movie publicity man, discovers the criminal. We warn you not to be too gullible in accepting obvious clues, because Paramount, Inc., is bent...
GAUDY NIGHT-Dorothy L. Sayers- Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). Though murder stories form the chief mental diet of many a respectable citizen, even the most avid consumers are apt to be apologetic or defiant about their appetite. But they would not admit that detectification is the lowest form of writing. They would point out that the ability to concoct a specious and readable thriller demands more ingenuity and special training than many a novelist can command. And they would further contend that the best murder stories can compete with novels on their own ground. Partisans might instance the tales...
...First in Medieval Literature). In London she got a job writing copy in an advertising agency, worked at detective stories on the side. In 1926 she married Capt. Atherton Fleming, famed war correspondent. Dorothy Sayers likes her trade. Her best-loved recreation is reading other people's murder stories, attending meetings of the Detection Club, a private association of her peers presided over by G. K. Chesterton. She thinks well of her own work but admires the classics more. Her favorite classic: Wilkie Collins' The Moonstone...