Word: sprigge
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...PERFECT ALIBI-C. St. John Sprigg -Crime Club ($2). All suspects have alibis when the armament king is murdered. Best are those of killer and victim, which are pierced when a smart young reporter helps the police. Jekyll-and-Hyde motif...
...Bishop Murder Case (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Cock Robin was the first to go. An arrow finished him. Then little Johnny Sprigg was shot in the top of his wig and Humpty Dumpty tumbled off a wall. It was Philo Vance, the amateur detective of the S. S. Van Dine mystery stories, who found the solution of the Mother Goose pattern in the series of horrible murders involving first Mr. Cochrane Robin in an archery butt, then a gentleman named Sperling, which is sparrow in German, then Mr. Sprigg, and finally a hunchback who resembled Humpty principally in the manner...