Word: wensley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Frederick Porter ("the Weasel") Wensley, 84, beak-nosed master sleuth, onetime head of Scotland Yard's famed C.I.D. (Criminal Investigation Department), who solved many of Britain's most famous crimes during his long (1887-1929) service; in London. No theorizing Hercule Poirot, Wensley served a rough & tumble apprenticeship in London's thug-infested East End during the Jack the Ripper era, wrote about it all in Forty Years of Scotland Yard...
...thousand other villagers of Wharfedale, Waldendale and the emerald green valley of Wensley were joined in their hunt by a posse of army lads equipped with walkie-talkies; at one point they thought they had him surrounded, but the murderer fled to a stretch of wild country where no man could follow...