Word: sleuthing
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Hopeful that he had the author of all 13 atrocities, Cleveland's Sheriff Martin L. O'Donnell breathed a long sigh of relief. Politically, his skin was saved. Professionally, he had triumphed over Sleuth Eliot Ness, famed G-Man who "got" Al Capone and is now Cleveland's Director of Public Safety...
Quebec-born, of a French Canadian mother and an Irish engineer father, ruddy, grey-maned John B. is 45, lives comfortably in suburban Larchmont, N. Y. plans to taper off on radio work to devote his time to developing a fictional sleuth to succeed Chesterton's Father Brown...
...doctors, research problem No. 1 is cancer. No. 1 sleuth organization is the recently established National Advisory Cancer Council, a branch of the U. S. Public Health Service. Several months ago Surgeon General Thomas Parran appointed a committee of five eminent researchers* to correlate all the facts discovered about the cause and growth of cancer in the last 30 years. Last week the U. S. Public Health Service released the scientists' report. Significant facts...
...DIRECT - Alice Tilton-Norton ($2). Complications, amusing rather than terrifying, beginning in a small town near Boston when someone tries to run over Leonidas Witherall, ex-professor and amateur sleuth who looks like Shakespeare. Good midsummer reading...
MURDER AT MANEUVERS - Royce Howes-Crime Club ($2). The shooting of a Russian general during war games; a simple, likable sleuth; suspects who include army officers and operators of a nearby speakeasy...