Word: pinkertons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Author Hammett, 47, onetime Pinkerton detective, white-haired, and very thin, has not written a book since his memorable The Thin Man (1934). Since then, the once undisputed champion of U.S. crime-story writers has been scripting his thrillers for Hollywood. For a long, long time he has had his sixth book-now titled There Was a Young Man-under way. He swears it is almost finished. Queried about his whereabouts (now Manhattan), one of the author's waggish friends quipped: "He's sitting at the Beverly-Wilshire contemplating his novel...
...pulled off by the child's mother. He follows his steady nose through the most sidesplitting chase sequences since the days of the Keystone cops. He is surrounded but not obscured by such accomplices as Franklin Pangborn, Shemp Howard and Jessie Ralph, bearing such names as J. Pinkerton Snoopington, Joe Guelpe and Mrs. Hermisillo Brunch...
...SECOND MYSTERY BOOK-Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). Works by those well-known slicks: Anthony Abbott (Thatcher Colt), Leslie Ford (Colonel Primrose), David Frome (Mr. Pinkerton), Mary Roberts Rinehart, Rex Stout (Tecumseh Fox), Philip Wylie. Well worth the extra...
Adams House will have three Nieman Fellows: Arthur D. Eggleston and Ralph J. Werner as non-resident members, and William M. Pinkerton as a resident. Eggleston, who will be here only for the first half year, is a labor columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, and has studied at the University of California. Werner is assistant financial editor of the Milwaukee Journal, and has emphasized a simplified presentation of financial and business news through charts, photographs, and "humanized" writing style. Pinkerton is a Washington reporter for the Associated Press, a former student at the University of Wisconsin, and a specialist...