Word: murderings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...above is from "Murder in the Cathedral", the speech of the Third Knight. Just try changing some of the names...
Marriage Revealed. Lieut. Thomas Hedges Massie, 31, U. S. N., divorced husband of Thalia Fortescue Massie of Hawaii's celebrated rape-&-murder case (TIME, Jan. 18, 1932 et seq.); and Florence K. Storms, 29, Seattle stenographer, daughter of Chewelah, Wash.'s postmaster; fortnight ago; in Seattle...
BUSMAN'S HONEYMOON - Dorothy L. Sayers-Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). Peter and Harriet (Gaudy Night, TIME, Feb. 24, 1936) spend their honeymoon in an ancient English farmhouse and discover smoking fireplaces, eccentric neighbors, cold-blooded murder and-a greater understanding...
Blame for the murder of an eminent staff doctor of an impeccable mental hospital is not so easily put on an insane inmate when police learn that the victim was unloved by all of his associates...
...CLIMBS-C. A. Tarrant- Lippincott ($2). A mousy little clerk accidentally becomes a gentlemanly crook by night, worries his old landlady, a woman boarder and all of Scotland Yard, while amassing a fortune, without murder, for a "Sacred Cause." THE MOONSTONE AND THE WOMAN IN WHITE-Wilkie Collins-Modern Library ($1.10). Reprint, in readable type, of two detective classics; with an introduction by Alexander Woollcott. The first and probably the best, full-length detective novel, The Moonstone has had a U. S. reputation confined mostly to hearsay...