Word: murdered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Late in August 1924, Justice John Richard Caverly of Chicago heard the last arguments in the Loeb-Leopold murder case, retired to wrestle with the record and his conscience before deciding whether the boy-killers should live or die. To his door went two Chicago Tribune newshawks, a man and a woman. They were covering the trial, but this time they wanted no news. Hesitantly the man spoke...
...eked out his salary by "shaking down'' tenants whose line of business was not strictly legal. His craving for women, liquor, gambling made money his obsession. Hard up, he shook down a pimp of his acquaintance once too often, found himself the unwilling accessory at a murder. He lost his job, tried desperately to chisel in on some steady racket. Rent-collecting among small shopkeepers had given him valuable information about when and where they kept their money. Soon he was ''the brain guy" for a small gang of robbers. But Bill was no thoughtless criminal...
...good example of class No. 2 is Death in the Quarry. Dennis Norman has to reveal his past life to free himself of suspicion in a murder. The study of quarrying, crockery and corporate finance eventually leads dogged Superintendent Wilson to the solution of a strange case...
...STRANGLED WITNESS&151;Leslie Ford&151;Farrar & Rinehart ($2). Lobbying and espionage in Washington prove lethal as well as lucrative. The murder of the blonde young widow was solved only because Col. Primrose remembered odors and an old custom...
...TALKING SPARROW MURDERS&151;Darwin L. Teilhet&151; Morrow ($2). The hard times of a murder suspect in Nazi Germany. Previously serialized...