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...metal object or trail a few feet of wire to serve as an antenna. Its range may be a few hundred feet. In such areas as residential Beverly Hills, where rooms are hard to rent and cars cannot be parked on the streets at night, the electronic sleuth buries a brick-size repeater in the victim's yard, threading its antenna wire into a bush. The repeater picks up the weak signal from a bug in the victim's house and rebroadcasts it in sufficient volume to be heard beyond the restricted area...
Moreover, Denning has ingeniously found a new role for his sleuth. Portrayed as a member of the House of Lords, the master detective investigates the affair for an aging Prime Minister, and the whole book is cleverly written in the form of a parliamentary report...
Died. Reginald William Lockerbie Spooner, 60, Britain's best-known real-life sleuth and chief of Scotland Yard detectives since 1958, whose most celebrated case was the 1946 capture of Sex Murderer Neville Heath, and most recent assignment was the Great Train Robbery; of cancer; in London...
...Street." Crash! A few frames later a man's suit is found without a man in it. After exhaustive analysis, the lab releases its report: "This suit needs cleaning." Suddenly a stone comes flying through the window and lands on Quilt's desk. "Aha!" cries the master sleuth. "Whoever threw that is just a stone's throw from here...
...other hand, Murder, (She Said) (at the Exeter, KE 6-7067) makes a perfect evening. Margaret Rutherford is superb as the undaunted amateur sleuth who solves a mysterious murder after many complications. The story is an Agatha Christie and a good one; the production is excellent...