Word: sleuths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...help, lets them sink or swim. But thanks to the exploratory works of critics, and notably such an exegetical commentary as Stuard Gilbert's James Joyce's Ulysses (TIME, Jan. 5, 1931),! the plain reader can now literally find out what Ulysses is all about. Lacking the sleuth-nose, the slot-trained paws of scholarship, even an intelligent reader will miss much the first time over the ground. At that, however, the main outlines of the story are plain...
...leak leaked on. Asked whether any progress had been made in stopping it, Sleuth Bailie cosily replied: "We always make progress...
...PRIVATE LIFE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES - Vincent Starrett - Macmillan ($2). Mystery-writer Starrett makes readable his really scholarly study of the great sleuth...
...pleasant variation from the general mystery story is the manner in which the various police officers working upon the case help each other and together see the thing through, so that in this story, instead of the one sterotyped super sleuth very nobly carrying on, we have the small group solve their problem by their cooperative efforts...
DEAD MRS. STRATTON-Anthony Berkeley-Crime Club ($2). Sleuth Sheringham, detecting a murder, finds himself the favorite suspect, has a narrow squeak, remains puzzled...