Word: murdered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...accidental criminal is usually quite frank in admitting his crime. Psychopaths commit crimes against persons such as murder: non-psychopaths against property, such as burglary. Many psychopathic criminals are teetotalers.-Dr. Cornelius Collins Wholey, Pittsburgh...
...Case Against Mrs, Ames (Paramount) opens with a shot of a loudspeaker which emits a march tune and an announcement that its dramatized news program is that of "the weekly newsmagazine." There follows an inordinately frenzied resume of what would appear to be just another murder. All this constitutes a dubious asset to a crime-&-courtroom picture which is otherwise well-plotted, well-paced entertainment...
...seems to believe that Mrs. Ames (Madeleine Carroll) shot and killed her rich husband. An assistant district attorney (George Brent) is so convinced of it that he denounces the jury, gets jailed for contempt of court. Mrs. Ames's dowager mother-in-law (Beulah Bondi) makes the murder a pretext for taking possession of Mrs. Ames's small son. Acting from thoroughly scrambled motives, the assistant district attorney performs some sleuthing while the not particularly bright young widow makes a mess of acting as her own counsel in a court battle...
FLOWERS FOR THE JUDGE-Margery Allingham - Double day, Doran ($2). Author Allingham's characters are conventional murder-story puppets but by skillful pace, dialog, detail, she makes a commonplace theme into a specious and entertaining yarn...
SHELL OF DEATH-Nicholas Blake-Harper ($2). Literature account of the murder of Fergus O'Brien, a T. E. Lawrence-like aviator who, unlike his prototype, has involved himself in amorous intrigue. Lines from Tourneur's Elizabethan play, The Revenger's Tragedy, provide the main clue...