Word: murderings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Portland, Me.. James Morrill, 11, helped convict his mother of murder by telling how, after she had killed his father with an ax in their shack on Falmouth's Underwitted Road, she made her small son help trundle the body down to the cellar in his toy cart. "She asked me to help bury him," said James Morrill. "I threw on a few shovels of dirt, but I didn't feel like doing...
...daughter of a big U. S. moneyman if her father will lend him $25,000,000. Not long after this alliance, a man's body with a bullet through it comes hurtling down from the Faulkner penthouse and Karen Andre is put on trial for Faulkner's murder. Was it murder? Was it suicide? Was the body Faulkner...
...Runyon character is written, the harder it is to act. Actor Harrington seems to interpret Marco not so much as a droll picaroon but as a bumbling slob. But as Mike, Actor Sweeney is a soft-spoken Runyon killer of the first order. If A Slight Case of Murder outlasts Three Men on a Horse, its aging kinsman in the theatre next door, it will be due largely to Mr. Sweeney...
...Yale "Sheff," Columbia, Kiel, Göttingen, Berlin and Vienna, he taught pathology, became director of the Bellevue Hospital laboratories, was appointed Chief Medical Examiner by Mayor Hylan in 1918. He battled for pure food laws, fought against quack doctors, Prohibition, insanitary restaurants, pronounced on many a suicide and murder that perplexed police, made his name and detective work known in medico-legal circles the world over. Underpaid ($6,890 per year), he footed bills for equipment and technician's salary from his own pocket, twice threatened to resign, was persuaded to reconsider. He called the morgue the "Country Club...
...first four books, each as long as an ordinary novel, constituted the preface to the entire work. They introduced a hundred odd characters drawn from every level of Parisian society in 1908, outlined a dozen major complications that ranged from the discreet bribing of a radical deputy to a murder committed by a perverse bookbinder. The only theme linking the unrelated incidents and careers was the threat of a general European war which, looming large in the consciousness of more farsighted characters, filled them with a sense of urgency and strain...