Word: murdered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bundled him into the trunk of his own car and then taken his wife searching for him, killed Mrs. Littlefield when she grew suspicious, cruised through six States for three days with his gruesome cargo. After changing the details of this narrative four times, Paul Dwyer was convicted of murder, sent for life to Maine's State Prison at Thomaston. Last week Convict Dwyer was back in court with a sixth version of the murders, by far the strangest, most horrible...
...Infanticide Act repealed the Infanticide Act of 1922 and introduced the reform that an English mother who slays her child before it is one year old is no longer guilty of murder but only of "infanticide," which is punished as manslaughter...
...Angeles, a nervy adventurer is investigating the mysterious murder of his brother, a reporter. Clues lead dangerously to the Brotherhood of the Judgment, a fanatical sect headed by sinister Father John, whose real name is MacMichael. Sect headquarters are in Barstow. There arrive the architect, the scientist and the adventurer. During the next 187 pages, at the MacMichael desert palace, the three young men are shot at, kidnapped, finally escape an awful doom, not very much to a reader's relief...
...thousands under his pseudonym but to few by his real name, after his son is killed by a hit-&-run driver. Slipping into his ready-made disguise, Cairnes set out to avenge his son, soon finds himself involved in a conventional dilemma-one of seven suspects in a murder case, all with unsatisfactory accounts of their actions at the time of the killing. The mystery is literary because its solution depends largely on a critical analysis of a piece of writing: a sensitive detective finds revealing insincerity in a piece of prose which might well get by a professional critic...
...MURDER AT MANEUVERS - Royce Howes-Crime Club ($2). The shooting of a Russian general during war games; a simple, likable sleuth; suspects who include army officers and operators of a nearby speakeasy...