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Word: sleuths (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poet's Mystery | 7/25/1938 | See Source »

...roads lead to Rome, and all final examination and course grades lead the students hot on their trail to University Hall. But that ground is hallowed now, and no sleuth may legally apprehend his prey thereon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GRADE SEEKERS AVOID UNIVERSITY'S OFFICES! | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

Murder and kidnapping among a group of wealthy people marooned on a lonely island off Cape Cod, solved by likable local sleuth. Elisha Macomber. Plot: deft; atmosphere: good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mysteries-of-the-Month: Apr. 25, 1938 | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

...months now, Mr. Richard Tracy, stellar sleuth of the Nation's G-Men, has been courageously defending America's shores against the onslaughts of COMMUNISTS who are trying to burden this DEMOCRACY with coolie labor. Mr. Tracy might have some chance of success, were it not for the UNAMERICAN forces which are BORING FROM WITHIN...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE YELLOW PERIL | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

Connolly suffers in his characterization because Edward Arnold has already given the screen one Nero Wolfe. As the sleuth right-hand man Lionel Standor contributes the only original elements to the film...

Author: By M. F. E., | Title: * The Moviegoer * | 12/7/1937 | See Source »

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