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...historian (Ordeal by Fire), offered a volume containing accounts of twelve of Ellis Parker's more sensational successes. Less a batch of detective stories than a collection of analyses of human behavior in moments of crisis, The Cunning Mulatto is obviously modeled on the tales of Sherlock Holmes, with Author Pratt in the role of Dr. Watson asking intelligent leading questions. Although he tells little of his personal life, Detective Parker began trapping criminals because of his anger when his horse & buggy were stolen. Believing that people in times of stress act according to a few readily recognizable patterns...
Spilsbury Sniff. Never a crime of "Spilsbury calibre" was the "Rats" murder but last week Britain's real-life Sherlock Holmes, the great criminal pathologist Sir Bernard Spilsbury (TIME, March 4 et seq.), was called on a case exactly to his taste when the potman of a pub in South London went nosing down into a cellar disused for years. Next door to the pub is the Old Surrey Theatre, now being torn down but in Queen Victoria's day the mecca of thrill-thirsty folk who loved to see dramas of ripe, purple blood and thunder...
...which is fast killing censorship in most U. S. cities, the New York Junior League last month opened an exhibition of banned books from the time of Confucius to the present. Among them: Homer's Odyssey, Shakespeare's Richard the Second, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes. The governor of a Chinese province once banned Alice in Wonderland because in it animals talked, thus putting themselves on a par with humans. Tsarist Russia, fearful lest moppets get fantastic ideas, banned Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales. Last week New York Junior Leaguers, delighted...
Scrutinizing the Brentford Torso last week, England's real-life Sherlock Holmes, exclaimed: "Look at those freckles...
Died. Anna Katharine Green (Mrs. Charles Rohlfs), 88, pioneer detective story writer; in Buffalo, N. Y. Influenced by Emile Gaboriau and Wilkie Collins, she published her first work, The Leavenworth Case, in 1878, nine years before Conan Doyle introduced Sherlock Holmes in A Study in Scarlet. A bestseller, it ran to 150,000 copies, is still in demand. Author Green's favorite plot ingredients: the murderer is the first to announce the crime; someone passing a door hears a conversation, attributes it to the wrong persons; circumstantial evidence always points to the innocent, thus illustrating Author Green...