Word: murderings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...KNAVES-Leslie Charteris -Crime Club ($2). A murder, forged bonds, a clash with big British smugglers, a fight with a blackmailer who threatens to carve the faces of movie stars, provide the complications of three novelettes about that brash and amusing Robin Hood called the Saint. Exciting...
...MURDER UP MY SLEEVE-Erie Stanley Gardner-Morrow ($2). One death, by a dart from a Chinese sleeve gun, with suspects that include members of San Francisco's social set, Chinatown characters, and the detective himself (who is Terry Clane, successor to Author Gardner's famed Perry Mason). First rate...
...Cedric Adams' personal concern was relieved when his good friend & tipster, Dr. Russel R. Noice, walked into the Star office, made known he was ready to tell police he had overheard a murder plotted in the cheap League of Nations beer parlor, but that the intended victim was not Corcoran but another labor leader. Soon Alderman A. G. Bastis revealed that not only Patrick Corcoran but four other labor leaders had been marked for death, that Corcoran himself knew he was in danger, that Rumorist Adams had merely printed what had been widely whispered in Twin City labor circles...
After five days had passed, Corcoran's murder was unsolved despite rewards of $10,000 offered by the Teamsters' Council, $500 by the Star, $500 by Governor Elmer Benson...
Portia on Trial (Republic). Frieda Inescort rattles the skeletons in the closet of ruthless Publisher Clarence Kolb to free Heather Angel of a murder charge...