Word: murders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more if earnings reached $6. Depression kept him from lifting earnings above $1.98 after four years of trying, but the new one-piece Gillette which opens up like a clamshell is basically his invention. This spring, just to see if he could do it, he wrote a mystery story, Murder in Newport, which Scribner's accepted and published. He also plays the mouth organ (upside down) and does sleight-of-hand...
...jail and hated it. When he was arrested in Hamtramck, Mich., last July as a robbery suspect, Michigan authorities wanted to jail him again. But John Deering (who had shot his way to freedom once before) rather than take a 15-year jail sentence in Michigan confessed to the murder of Oliver R. Meredith Jr. in a robbery at Salt Lake City two months before. Extradited to Utah and tried for first-degree murder, he stolidly maintained that he was a habitual criminal, would be better dead. The judge agreed. Utah law gave him the choice of being hanged...
Although the Harvard agent denied that Boston's most powerful lottery baron had anything to do with the pool, it was learned conclusively that the gambler, a witness in the "Beauo" Breen murder case, had agreed to back the enterprise...
...upper hand throughout most of the tiny country. British courts of law ceased to function in all but the larger cities. Effective British government was confined to the boundaries of new Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Haifa. Daily trains to Egypt operated only thrice weekly, and then under armed guard. Arson, murder, wanton destruction made the Holy Land a land of terror, reducing Britain's prestige in the Near East to its lowest point in history...
...CROOKED HINGE - John Dickson Carr - Harper ($2). Extremely neat puzzle involving mixed identity, murder and witchcraft in an English village. Dr. Fell provides a surprising, ultra-tricky solution...