Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...good as the last, perhaps even a little better. Last week's Wodehouse, both in patter & pattern, they found as engagingly inane as ever. For Uncle Fred in the Springtime has the usual bubbling dialogue, the same jolly old set of characters, the same intricately improbable plot clicking along with the dizzy precision of a circus...
Blandings Castle, the Shropshire seat of pig-mad, sieve-memoried Clarence, ninth Earl of Emsworth, is once more the scene of action, and the threatened abduction of his prize porker, the Empress of Blandings, is again a mainspring of the plot. Before the final exposure, young love is triumphant and the Empress back snuffling...
Gaunt-faced, peppery Clarence Budington Kelland is a leading professional in the slick-paper magazine school of fiction. Twice as ingenious as most of his rivals, he has two standard plots: 1) streamlined, wisecracking romances, in which a duffer outwises the wise guys, 2) yarns-mostly historical-in which all stops are pulled out to paean the American Way. Arizona, a Civil War yarn published last week, uses Plot...
...strategy of terrorism and gave specific instructions on how to send bombs by parcel post, clog sewers with quick-drying cement, sabotage machines, and destroy public utilities. The campaign, the "S Plan" indicated, should reach its maximum effectiveness early next winter. M.P.s guffawed when Sir Samuel told of a plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament, but they were not amused when he stated: "We have reliable information in our possession that the campaign is being closely watched and actively stimulated by foreign organizations...
...COUNSELLOR-J. J. Connington-Little, Brown ($2). An English Voice of Experience hunts for a missing girl and stumbles into a pleasant and exhilarating murder case. Merits: a neatly involved plot; an engaging new sleuth (Mark Brand, "The Counsellor"). Fault: readers can beat the author to the solution...