Word: murderings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ALBUM-Mary Roberts Rinehart -Farrar & Rinehart ($2). Murder in a sequestered group-and a prying spinster finds romance while solving the crime...
...POLICEMAN-John Rhode, Helen Simpson. Gladys Mitchell, Dorothy L. Sayers, Anthony Berkeley, Milward Kennedy-Morrow ($2). With the aid of an ingenious setting-the murder of a belligerent newspaper publisher-four famed members of the Detection Club trade characters to make fit fare for post-graduate mystery readers...
...Raymond) and his wife are pressed for funds. She goes into a law office, swiftly becomes a celebrated attorney. Her husband, slighted by her friends, humiliated by her success, takes to drink, dancing girls, the profession of crooning. When his mistress strangles herself by accident, he is accused of murder. In court, Ann Carver hammers home the point of the play: it was all her fault for not giving him a home...
Typical of the director's bungling was flatulent humor immediately following a murder, just preceding a bathetic attempt at a pathetic...
...division had indorsed it. There are small Sin-Boards. 6x9 in., for use during sermons, and cardboard sheets 40 x 48 in., which sell for $1. Some sins and peccadillos on Preacher Young's list: Adultery Hypocrisy Agnosticism Inferiority Complex Aping the World Miserliness Being a Lone Wolf Murder Class Distinction Road Hog Dispositional Temper Sabbath Desecration Waste of Others'Time Waste of One's Time Drinking Gambling Time