Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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DEATH RIDES THE AIR LINE, by William Sutherland Land a plans at a New Jersey airport with one murdered and five suspected murdered and you have a plot that will give you plenty be worry about for a couple of hours. Add to the plot the smooth-bowing dialogue and description of William Sutherland, and you make the worrying a very interesting past-time. Inspector Grady does most of the investigating--and gets into the usual mystery-story complexities. As usual the one least suspected is the guilty one--and we'll give you no more tips about...
...with but it is the only good idea in Limehouse Blues. Raft is a half-caste Chinese proprietor of a nasty little place called the Lily Garden. Although the scene is London's Chinatown, his New-Yorkese is explained by having him a transplanted U.S. under-worldling. The plot concerns his love for Toni (Jean Parker) whom he protects when a constable wants to arrest her for stealing a watch; a love that persists in spite of her almost immediate attachment to the young proprietor of a dog store whom she meets while taking a walk. The threat...
...story has as its background a Chicago electrotype foundry and its principal characters are those who are connected with that activity. There is scarcely any plot to the work but the reader is introduced to and made acquainted with the lives, ideas, hopes, and ambitions of the foundry workers in an intimate and personal way. The presentation is vigorous and masculine and anyone who enjoys studying and probing into the lives of his fellowmen will like "The Foundry." It is full of pierving observations and has a humorous tone that adds a great deal to making the novel enjoyable...
When their Lordships rose, the sedition-squelcher had passed second reading after lurid revelations by Baron Allen of Hurtwood, a close friend of Scot MacDonald. "A plot has been discovered to seize the British Broadcasting House and make a coup d'état like that attempted in Vienna last July," began Lord Allen. He ended by admitting that the plotters "went no further than to think of preparation of plans...
...soon as it becomes apparent that Evelyn Prentice has a plot, seasoned cinemaddicts will easily guess the rest. The fact that the blackmailing poet keeps a revolver and a diary in his desk clearly indicates a murder to come. That John Prentice is a crack lawyer suggests a courtroom scene in which he will extricate his wife from difficulties. A squeaking little Prentice (Cora Sue Collins) guarantees that her parents will be estranged and reconciled. Although Evelyn Prentice is far from being an experiment, in either art or advertising, its conventional coils are expertly twisted and untwisted. For the most...