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Enter the solver of the murders, Philo Vance. He smokes expensive, heady cigarets. He drawls, diverts, digresses. He likes Chinese water colors and all manner of arty things. He drives his own Hispano-Suiza when he is thinking fast. He works with, but often annoys, the police. Finally, he gets the murderer by applying the theory that a painting is a greater work of skill than a photograph. Shrewd readers should be able to spot the murderer on page 330; average readers on page 339; stupid readers on page...
...Philo McCullough) an engineer. Both loved snub-nosed Kate (Jobyna Ralston) daughter of the lunch room lady. Jim warns Bat to go slowly round the curve. Bat speeds up, skids, smashes into the ditch. Unhurt, Jim fires up old Engine No. 99, hauls on the mail bags, rushes to Medicine Bend on time, winning the contract and Kate...
Some honor, therefore, is due a detective story which has the greater part of a college in its grip. Discussion of the most appalling examination yields to the universal question of "who killed him?" Mr. Philo Vance to say nothing of his anonymous creator must be gratified in spite of his indifferent pose at the numbers who follow his monthly pursuit of the criminal; and when at last his efforts are crowned with inevitable success, he will have the satisfaction of seeing a distinct loosening of tension in a community not usually distinguished for its interest in anything...
...squat Slav, called by the prosecution, who described himself as an "historian, a man of letters and at present an assistant to a stone- mason," gave evidence in Petlura's philo-Semiticism, denying with a grief-contorted face that the "General" had ever killed Jews or caused them to be massacred...
...Testament gives two slightly different versions of the Ten Command ments, EXODUS 20 : 1-17, and DEUTERONOMY 5 : 6-21. It has been a bitter problem collating and dividing these Laws. Jews follow the Talmud's order, Calvinistic and Eastern Orthodox churches Philo's, Roman Catholics and Lutherans St. Augustine...