Word: victim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that way with Lew Archer, quick-thinking, fast-moving hero of John Ross Macdonald's Find a Victim. Tooling along a California highway on the way to Sacramento, he saw "the ghastliest hitchhiker who ever thumbed me. He rose on his knees in the ditch. His eyes were black holes in his yellow face, his mouth a bright smear of red like a clown's painted grin." Archer got him to a motel, but when the fellow died at the hospital, Archer had no intention of calling it quits. Almost before Tony Aquista's body had cooled...
...FIND A VICTIM (215 pp.)-John Ross Macdonald-Knopf...
Exonerated because her victim has gallantly last-gasped that it was all an accident, Shelley is nevertheless thrown out of work by the scandal. "The main thing wrong with the future." she broods, "is that it gets here so much sooner than it used to." Colleen cannot get modeling dates, either, and when a girl cannot get modeling dates in New York, there is nothing for her to do. it would appear, but to ac cept the $100 kind. She winds up moiling for mobsters, but in due time finds a way (Gregg Palmer) to restore her amateur standing...
...Stevens and Army Counselor Adams. Later he dragged in Assistant Defense Secretary Hensel (admitting last week that he had assumed Hensel's implication by "adding two and two"), and then hinted that Deputy Attorney General William Rogers was the guilty party. Finally, he charged that he was the victim of a Democratic scheme, masterminded by Harry Truman's onetime counsel, Clark Clifford. By frequently shifting his target, McCarthy revealed his own lack of conviction in his charges...
...chief of the army. But her stipend is lean, and she fattens it by peddling army commissions. When her c. in c. cashiers her for conduct unbecoming a mistress, she avenges herself by causing one of the juiciest scandals ever aired in the House of Commons. Her noble victim manages at least to stop her from writing her memoirs about him by making a cash & carry settlement. But Mary Anne, casting a Cassandra-like glance into the future, hopefully murmurs: "The promise [binds] only myself, and not my heirs...