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...PINKERTON FINDS A BODY-David Frome-Farrar & Rim hart ($2). Shy Welshman Pinkerton goes trustingly about Oxford; finds himself suspected of murder. Rescued by Yard's Inspector Bull, Pinkerton reveals the necessary clue...
...both sides agreed that Justice Carew would probably dismiss Mrs. Vanderbilt's writ, thus giving sole possession of the child to Mrs. Whitney. Meantime at Old Westbury small Gloria Vanderbilt, threatened with harm in a letter signed "Catholic Communist," pursued her daily rounds under guard of twelve Pinkerton detectives...
...PINKERTON GOES TO SCOTLAND YARD-David Frome-Farrar & Rinehart ($2). Busybody Pinkerton makes more trouble, has more excitement than usual, in a suburban poisoning case...
...Author, unlike most of his colleagues, writes from his own eight-year experience as a Pinkerton detective. ''The first three or four years were fun," says he. "Then it got tedious. . . . The funniest case I ever worked on was the Arbuckle affair in San Francisco. In trying to convict him everybody framed everybody else." Practically every character in his books, says Hammett, he has known in person. As readers of The Thin Man can see by looking at its jacket, Dashiell Hammett is himself tall, thin, handsome, mildly theatrical. Lover of parlor games, including drinking, expert ping-pong...
...Next morning the field was a shambles of blood, feathers, mangled turkeys and broken glass. At first attendants thought there must be 300 turkeys lying with tooth-marked backs and broken necks. A count cut their estimate to 153. No one had seen the marauders, but it took no Pinkerton man to deduce their identity. Mongrel German police dogs from nearby farms, running singly or in pairs, had been making sheep and poultry raids in the neighborhood. Reconstructing the scene, Ashgrove employes saw the dogs burrowing under the field's six-foot wire fence, descending on the helpless turkeys...