Word: sleuth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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ALPHABET HICKS-Rex Stout-Farrar & Rinehort ($2). Clever alibi-busting by wily ex-lawyer detective clears up murders in a plastics laboratory near New York. Hicks is a worthy addition to the Stout sleuth-stable (other occupants: Nero Wolfe, Tecumseh...
Professional pickpockets started the goal post fight after the Dartmouth game last Saturday and then exploited the confusion to filch four or five watches and as many wallets, sleuth Bill Bingham asserted yesterday...
Uruguay sent Dr. Hugo Fernández Artucio, its No. 1 anti-Nazi sleuth, out to continue his work abroad. A onetime professor of philosophy at the University of Montevideo, Dr. Fernandez started his investigations in Uruguay as a labor of love, published a book of his findings, aroused the Government to squelch Nazi organizations. Recently he conferred with Government officials in nine Latin-American countries. Last week in Washington he testified at the trial of the German Transocean news service, which was found guilty of operating an unregistered propaganda outlet (see p. 17). Next he goes to London...
...McCall's, etc., brought Marquand enough money so that he could try his hand at more serious fiction. But thanks to that rigorous training, his serious books are 1) far easier reading than literature needs to be, 2) almost as profitable as the serialized adventures of his Japanese sleuth, Mr. Moto...
...CASE OF THE SILENT PARTNER -Eric Stanley Gardner-Morrow ($2). Perry Mason, insatiable lawyer-sleuth, is very nearly floored by a floozy on the West Coast. One jump ahead of Lieutenant Tragg, Mason solves a canyon slaying and whitewashes his lady client, who was being most foully done out of her common stock...