Word: scotts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week it flared up more sensationally than ever when a grand jury at Winston-Salem indicted Libby Reynolds and Ab Walker for murder. Largely re sponsible for the indictment was Sheriff Transou Scott who had amassed secret evidence against the suicide theory. Questions put to the grand jury: How did left-handed Smith Reynolds happen to shoot himself in the right "temple? If he was standing, as his wife said, how did the bullet which traveled downward through his head manage to cut a hole through the porch screen six feet above the floor? Why did detectives fail...
...junior out of pity, she said, more than love. Was she after his $15,000,000 share of the Reynolds estate? Manhattan tabloids playing up her stage life and loves got back to Winston-Salem, stirred old Southern prejudices. In this atmosphere of moral distrust and sectional suspicion Sheriff Scott procured his murder indictments while Libby Holman's friends talked bitterly of a "legal lynching...
...liquidating public projects began to pile up at the R. F. C. door. The Port of New York Authority wanted financial help to start a second vehicular tunnel under the Hudson River at a cost of $75,000,000. For joint fee of $5,000 Los Angeles hired Joseph Scott. Hoover nominator at Chicago, and William Gibbs McAdoo, Roosevelt stampeder at Chicago, to wangle a $32.000,000 loan with which to build a power transmission line from Hoover Dam. A Miami citizen sought $12,000,000 to build a highway bridge from the mainland to Key West. New York...
...dead by that time anyway. A bullet killed him. A strumpet who thinks Dallas did it is murdered presently. The third victim is Jurden Keye's mean-tempered female housekeeper. Detective Brady ? mild, courteous, less loquacious than most fictional sleuths?has eight suspects to work with. Like Author Scott's readers, he does not think that Dallas did the shooting...
...reality most closely is the fact that the culprits are not often punished. In The Ebony Bed Murder, however, the chief investigator is an eccentric advertising tycoon who does better than the whole Manhattan police force did in the some what similar case of Vivian Gordon. At least Griffin Scott finds out who killed Helen Brill Kent. He makes no proverbs and is therefore able to do it in fewer pages than it might have taken Charlie Chan. The Ebony Bed Murder is the July issue of the Mystery League...