Word: sleuthing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...popular with "serious" novelists, i.e., Aging Man Returns to Home Town in Search of His Youth. On top of that, he manages to combine outstandingly successful plots from both sides of the Atlantic, i.e., the British whodunit's Murder Stalks a Village and the American thriller's Sleuth Outwits Corrupt Local Politicians...
...Sleuth Hoffman says no. He believes that Marlowe was the "secret lover" of Courtier Sir Thomas Walsingham (WalsingHam, suggests Hoffman, is the "Mr. W. H." to whom Shakespeare's sonnets are dedicated). Fearing that his boy friend would be burned at the stake for heresy, Walsingham faked up a murder. Only a stooge was buried at Deptford. Marlowe lived on secretly for many years, wrote all the plays of "Shakespeare." In fact, he began to write under Shakespeare's name almost immediately. Venus and Adonis, registered anonymously six weeks before Marlowe's murder, was published four months...
Reported our subscription sleuth: "Nip was only too right. We had not trusted our own eyes. We simply added Nap's new subscription to Nip's old one on the supposition that they were one and the same Brigham. Adjustment has been made, and Nip has been advised." By now two copies of TIME are going to Box 1 in Dyersburg every week...
...Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, got so tired of the great sleuth that he had wicked Professor Moriarty shove him over a waterfall, restored him to life only after a public clamor. Humorist Stephen Leacock also tried his hand at rubbing Sherlock out: he put him on all fours, entered him as a dachshund in an international dog show, and had him painlessly destroyed for not having a dog license...
Bitter Coffee. Once regarded as a very tough character. Private Eye Philip Marlowe seems a rather mellow and gentlemanly sleuth these days, especially when measured against Mickey Spillane's neo-Neanderthal Mike Hammer. For one thing, the years have been kind to Marlowe. Introduced in 1939 (in The Big Sleep) as 33, he is still only 42, still trim and lithe. When the pace gets too hectic, Marlowe heads for the kitchen and makes coffee: "Rich, strong, bitter, boiling hot, ruthless, depraved. The lifeblood of tired men." But he is far from the pipe-and-slippers stage...