Word: murders
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...course not. Why should they tear it down? Well, the inside. Didya see the red all over the snow? Thought it was a murder for a while. But Al says it's methyl orange. Butter-coloring. Guess that's what they use here...
Other Mysteries. As if to escape the Chesterbelloc ridicule, Footprints by Kay Cleaver Strahan (Doubleday, Doran, $2) is a detective story with practically no detective. Murder, rope hanging from the window?but no footsteps in the snow: members of the family suspect each other, one even suspects oneself. Ingenious idea, admirably executed...
Detectives from Scotland Yard being perennial favorites, Author George Dilnot catalogs their technique; and includes, gratuitously, a murder, escape, poison, embezzlement, beautiful heroine, mad villain ?all in The Black Ace (Houghton-Mifflin...
...proverbial amateur detective proves his excellence in the face of five ship's passengers who confess to the murder, and several others who are under suspicion, in Murder at Sea (Minton, Balch...
...such as is often passed permitting a jury to convict of murder without capital punishment would take care of less serious cases and of cases where there is a shadow of doubt...