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Word: truckman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...woman's handbag was fished out of a lake far off the A2O road, Fabian traced the course of the bag up an old millstream to a cider works near the road. There he found a pile of newly delivered bricks. On a hunch, he asked for the truckman who had delivered them. The man gave a false name, but Fabian pried loose his real one and a criminal record: "Harold Hagger-16 convictions, including assault on a woman." Hagger blustered that Dagmar Peters had tried to rob him, but "the jury did not believe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sleuthmcmship | 8/17/1953 | See Source »

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