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Word: murderers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...astonishment at Lincoln amounted to awe. On the day his diary opens, Lincoln "quietly grinned" when he was told of a plot to murder him. When told of the generals' ambition to set up a military dictatorship, Lincoln was reminded of Jim Jett's brother: "Jim used to say that his brother was the damndest scoundrel that ever lived, but in the infinite mercy of Providence he was also the damndest fool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lucky Diarist | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

Suppose you were plumped down in a big foreign city, and there you met a redheaded, respectable-looking girl who disclosed that she was all set to murder her faithless lover. Could you prevent the murder-without resort to police, intimidation, hypnosis or miracles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murder Therapy | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

PUZZLE FOR PLAYERS-Patrick Quentin -Simon & Schuster ($2). Murder interrupts the rehearsals of a Broadway show. Rich plot, crackling dialogue, authentic Broadway setting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mysteries | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

FOUR FRIGHTENED WOMEN - George Harmon Coxe-Knopf ($2). News Photographer Kent Murdock gets seriously involved with the murder of a comic actor's exwife. Two more murders and a kidnapping before the payoff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mysteries | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

...minute Vag was left alone with Sophia to save her. He tried to remember the doctor's instructions but they all rattled around in his head with a great racket and he could only think that it was too late. She died at 12:15. Vag knew it was murder, but it is a secret he keeps locked in his heart...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 2/1/1939 | See Source »

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