Word: murderings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Murder is not a capital crime in Lower California, but General Contreras took no chances in waiting for a trial. All the next night a court martial sat. At sunrise the prisoner. Private Juan Castillo Morales, 24, was hustled to the cemetery on a nearby hill, told to run for his life. A firing squad of his fellow soldiers finished him quickly...
Leonard Gribble told an unbelievable story of the murder of a self-made Englishman at a fancy-dress ball. In Midnight and Percy Jones Vincent Starrett told the story of the shooting of a Chicago concert singer and the solution of the crime by Riley Blackwood, a drama critic and annoying amateur detective...
...month showed few that were definitely bad, it also had few that addicts could call first-rate. In the category of acceptable they put items like Laurence Dwight Smith's Death Is Thy Neighbor, Nard Jones's The Case of the Hanging Lady, George Bagby's Murder on the Nose, G. D. H. & Margaret Cole's The Missing Aunt, Whitman Chambers' Dog Eat Dog, Carolyn Wells's The Missing Link, William Gore's The Mystery of the Painted Nude, Ellery Queen's The Devil...
...satisfactory bill at the University, is the story of a girl who always says the first thing that comes into her head, in other words, an inveterate liar. It was written for Carole Lombard, who romps through it with delightful finesse. Although one lie in particular--confession to a murder she did not commit--takes up a great part of the picture, there are many, all typical of Miss Lombard's somewhat hysterical character. The ease with which she tells them makes for excellent comedy...
There are some obscure points in the plot that would cry out for clearing up if the play were to assume the standing of a murder mystery. Inasmuch as it bases all its claims on its excellent comedy of character and circumstance, however, the discrepancies in the story may be ignored. But one confusing element would seem regrettable: first the little teller promises his wife that someday he will be rich and famous; then his sensational adventure comes about apparently as an accident. The result is that the slightly bewildered spectator doesn't know whether to regard...