Word: sleuths
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...criminal well beyond screen convention. Director Billy Wilder's casting is just as unconventional. Naturals for their parts are Fred MacMurray as an insurance salesman capable of murder; Barbara Stanwyck as the unprintable blonde (for the occasion) who exploits his capabilities; Edward G. Robinson as the insurance-claims sleuth who sniffs out the flaws in their all-but-perfect crime...
...BONES -Herman Peterson -Duell, Sloan and Pearce ($2). How a family skeleton that strayed from its closet to the bottom of an abandoned standpipe endangered the lives of several likable people and gave a rural doctor his chance to play sleuth. Well written, mystifying, capably plotted...
...PINK UMBRELLA -Frances Crane- J. B, Lippincott ($2). Honeymooning in Manhattan, San Francisco Sleuth Pat Abbott encounters an acquaintance of Paris expatriate days and is plunged into the torrid troubles of a quarrelsome clan, culminating in double murders. Abbott's frequent clashes with a babyfaced, steel-willed police lieutenant enliven a tightly plotted, brightly told tale, with an unexpected finish...
Sadist as well as sleuth, the landlord suavely tortures his tenant for two and a half acts, until finally each gets the drop on the other...
...Chicago Sun provided sleuth-minded readers with all the clues they needed. First the Sun topped Page One with a streamer: NEWS DISPATCHES or VITAL IMPORTANCE IN TOMORROW'S CHICAGO SUN. Supplementing this was a two-column box plugging the imminence of big news, and next to the box a dispatch from the Sun's London Correspondent Frederick Kuh saying: ". . . inter-Allied negotiations [now are coming] to fruition. . . ." Finally the Sun featured a Berlin radio report that Roosevelt and Churchill had met to discuss North Africa...