Word: murders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...MURDER OF MRS. DAVENPORT−Anthony Gilbert−Dial...
...general public Scotland Yard stands for all that is masterly in criminal detection. So much so, in fact, that the best-selling detective stories involve Scotland Yard; the second best contain the word murder in the title; and the rest trail far behind. Such are the findings of the American "Crime Club,"* a smart bookselling racket conceived by Nelson Doubleday, smart son of a smart father. As an advertisement, he mails to club members or prospective members a pink sheet of mystery-story news luridly modeled after the gumchewer dailies. But it is mailed to no gumchewers; rather to portly...
Copley-"The Bellamy Trial". A dramatization of a book which was supposed to be the great murder mystery of last year. The book was so much dialogue that making a play of it must have been easy; i. e. if you read the book there are better things...
...TRIAL OF MARY DUGAN-A chorine, haled into court for murder, uses her guile to disprove her guilt (TIME...
Machinal. It is related that Sophie Treadwell, author of Machinal and in private life the wife of Sports-Columnist W. O. McGeehan, witnessed the murder trial of Ruth Snyder and Judd Gray; that brooding upon it, she was able to select from the gaudy tangle a single thread on which to build her tragedy. Thus in Machinal a young woman marries, to escape the routine of work in an office, a gross and chuckling businessman. She bears him a child which she hates as she fears its father; then, in a speakeasy, she meets a man with whom she falls...