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Scotland Yard detectives were convinced that the body in the seaside bungalow was Emily Kaye's. The trouble was going to be in proving it. Four large pieces of her body were lying in a trunk. Thirty-seven smaller pieces were in a hatbox. The rest of her had been reduced to splinters and bone dust...
...murder. Then he changed his story. The killer, he swore, was a Mongol, a Soviet agent in U.S. uniform, otherwise known as Operative B 13. He himself, Meurant obligingly told the police, was in reality Soviet Operative B 17. The Mongol, he went on, had hidden in the trunk compartment of his car, stripped the countess to find some secret papers she was carrying, and strangled her, all before Meurant could interfere. "Brassières and panties," Meurant told an Amiens court informatively, "are excellent for hiding microfilm." After searching high & low for the Mongol, French justice finally condemned...
...goes job-hunting in an inconspicuous white Jaguar SS. Eventually he finds employment in a lonely country mansion where Jean Simmons--beautiful as ever--is being driven mad by her conniving step-parents. Then someone tries to frame Miss Simmons for murder, Howard piles her into the trunk compartment and leaves town. Step-parents, police, and assorted MI-5 agents follow in hot pursuit...
W7est Berlin, an island of freedom in Soviet East Germany, lost a little of its opportunity to strike back if another Berlin airlift is ever necessary. Because nearly all of Germany's trunk railroads converge like spokes into the hub of Berlin, the Allies have always wielded a sort of railroad veto over Red Germany. Last week the Russians canceled out the veto by completing the last link of a 100-mile bypass railroad circling Berlin, all in Soviet territory. Their 15-mile link to a long-planned loop took nearly a year, required 5,000 laborers...
...they agreed-in principle -to supervision of the armistice (after it is signed) by behind-the-lines inspection. Last week, when the matter was handed over to two-man subcommittees, it soon became clear that the big Red concession was as full of tricks as a magician's trunk. The situation at week's end: deadlock...