Word: suspicions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There is no belief, at least none in the minds of the SEC commissioners, that business is to be viewed with suspicion; that it must be harassed and annoyed and pushed around. Domestic tranquillity is as essential to business as it is to our political system...
John's new love is a quiet schoolteacher, whose job depends on her respectability. Mary's lover Martin, an announcer of the British Broadcasting Corp., has also to be above suspicion. Just once, however, Martin and Mary are tempted beyond their strength. A jealous woman writes an anonymous letter to the King's Proctor. Detectives investigate and Mary's decree is rescinded. Since both have been convicted of adultery neither she nor John can ever be divorced. She would live in sin with her ex-announcer, but poor respectable John would never get his schoolteacher...
Dictator Kemal did not feel that assault and robbery of the Bordens was justified. They were under no suspicion as possible naval spies. Bright and early next morning, Turkish officers courteously conducted Professor and Mrs. Borden to the scenes of their molestation. When they identified the sentry and the six other soldiers these were promptly clapped under military arrest with promise of a rigorous court martial. To Professor Borden was returned his money, and Mrs. Borden was indemnified for her torn clothes...
...good example of class No. 2 is Death in the Quarry. Dennis Norman has to reveal his past life to free himself of suspicion in a murder. The study of quarrying, crockery and corporate finance eventually leads dogged Superintendent Wilson to the solution of a strange case...
...PIDGEON'S ISLAND&151;Anthony Berkeley&151;Crime Club ($2). Risking expulsion from the Detection Club for a "guessing finale," the author exposes 14 people to a suspicion of murder. Cast away in an environment of suspicion, each of the group exhibits his basic personality, enabling Roger Sheringham to satisfy the reader's conclusion...