Word: murders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chasse d'un tigre," Maigret mutters grimly as the murderer's score mounts. When the tiger has made his fourth kill, Maigret sets a trap. He invents a suspect, credits him with the crimes, counts on the killer (whose vanity has been demonstrated in his challenge to the police) to protest his guilt by attempting a fresh murder-which 500 plainclothesmen stand ready to prevent. The trap springs, but the tiger escapes, and Maigret is forced to track him through some pretty tortuous back alleys of psychology-the sort of area a camera can easily get lost...
...gifted child with a poor education"). And the authors are so busy treating love affairs "sensitively," making character studies, examining race prejudice, family tensions and other neuroses, that they all but leave out the crime. One example of a book with too many extras: the bestselling Anatomy of a Murder ("We could do without the tippling lawyer's aide, the sentimental love affair at the end, and perhaps some of the medical evidence...
...MURDER ON TRIAL, by Michael Underwood (Washburn; $2.95), represents "detection slight but genuine...
...MURDER OF A WIFE, by Henry Kuttner (Pocket Books; 35?), presents "the ratiocination of a San Francisco psychiatrist . . . Sober and credible...
Last week at Lincoln the jury returned with its painful answer: it found Caril Ann Fugate guilty of first-degree murder, ordered her sentenced to life in prison...