Word: philo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...KENNEL MURDER CASE-S. S. Van Dine-Scribner ($2). There were half-a-dozen suspects when Heath, with Philo Vance's help, discovered that the corpse in the locked room really represented murder, not suicide. Erudition on Chinese ceramics and Scottie-breeding (carefully annotated) enables Vance to catch the culprit...
There come times in the lives of men when a dark, blood-curdling murder mystery is apropos. Those who at the witching hour huddle by the fireside in wide-eyed horror over the ghastly crimes solved by Philo Vance, those who feel terror grip their hearts in an astringent grasp at the shriek of an assassinated courtesan, they will enjoy the "Phantom of Crestwood." It abounds in all the paraphernalia of state grisliness, madmen, midnight murders, death masks, mobsters, and money musk...
...older than Winchester by nearly half a century, always its peer. The first Remington rifle was made by Eliphalet Remington in 1816. He died in 1861, weakened by the strain of upping production for the Civil War (then famed gun: the Harper's Ferry musket). His three sons Philo, Samuel and Eliphalet Jr., carried on, but 23 years after the Civil War Marcellus Hartley bought control of the company, and his grandson Marcellus Hartley Dodge is now its chairman. Remington first developed the hammerless, solid-breech, repeating shotgun and the hammerless unloading shotgun, introduced the paper shotgun shell...
...have gouged the facts out of the fellow would have been crude. Cuba's deductive Philo Vance reasoned to himself that plumbing plans were the clue. How many sets of plans were there? Three! How many were not up to date ? One! Where was that? In the archives of the City of Havana...
...camp to the President, and commander of the palace guards. Lightning-like, the deductive flash of suspicion leaped from the plumbing plans in the Municipal Archives through the ex-Mayor, his sister and the President's aide to the soldier and the bomb. Confronted by Cuba's Philo Vance with these crushing suspicions, the soldier broke down utterly. He had acted under orders from his superior officer the President's aide, he confessed. He had been given the bomb (12 Ib. of dynamite) at the residence of ex-Mayor Gomez. Oddly enough, though the aide was instantly...