Word: murders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from Germany at the age of four. He made himself a lawyer, specializing in divorce cases and defense of gangsters. Then he took up the bootlegging racket in Cincinnati, became the richest U. S. 'legger, built himself a $1,000,000 mansion with a Grecian swimming pool, murdered his wife, Imogene. He conducted his own defense, insulted Prosecutor Charles Phelps Taft II in court, was found not guilty of murder on grounds of insanity (TIME...
...TRIAL OF MARY DUGAN-In the capacity of jury, the audience hears about a chorus girl who is guilty of much but not of murder (TIME...
...play, written, acted, and staged by Willard Mack, has to do with the adventures of Michael Devlin, a member of the mounted police force in Canada. When a corpse is discovered at the beginning of the first act, it becomes his business first to find out who committed the murder and then to lay hands upon the culprit. Having accomplished the first part of his duty, he visits a snow-bound sporting house, where northern whores are cavorting with their customers. Unmoved by these ladies, Michael Devlin goes on trying to get his man. At last he breaks into...
...Author's Note to THE MURDER AT FLEET (J. P. Lippincott Company, 1928. $2.00.) Eric Brett Young tells the reader that there is not a word of truth in his whole novel. Not that the reader would for very long be kept in doubt because whatever merits this detective tale night possess plausibility is not one of them. Still it compensates for its lack of realism by a surplus of mystery and melodrama. A scarecrow plays a major part in the plot. Every elue in the murder led to a blank wall until Detective Faucet spied the blood...
...whose faces peer in startled beauty from the blossomed branches of her writing, Author Wylie lives in Manhattan, venturing but seldom to go among the troops of esthetes who long to do her honor. Her library is stocked with the works of Shelley and with the accounts of antique murder trials; her closets contain dresses from Paris; she has had two husbands before Mr. Benét; the daughters of one of them are now grown...