Word: whoduniteer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
BEST DETECTIVE STORIES OF THE YEAR - 1956, edited by David C. Cooke (252 pp.; Dutfon; $2.95), indicates that the detective short story is undergoing a marked change and notable improvement. In the majority of these tales, whodunit is not the main point. Like all effective short stories, most of them rely on character, emotional impact and skillful writing. The collection includes some talented newcomers and examples by such practiced hands as William Fay, Craig Rice, John and Ward Hawkins and Rufus King...
...meeting such a character, the reader may frequently stop worrying about whodunit, and start wondering who wrote it, for Evelyn Piper is a pen name. Real name: Mrs. Merriam Modell, author of five other novels, e.g., The Sound of Years, and wife of a New York doctor...
...scientists were disease detectives at work on a medical whodunit that began last month when a physician at the Portland Veterans Administration Hospital phoned the State Board of Health to report "a patient under treatment for pneumonia of an unusual character." The doctor suspected psittacosis (parrot fever), and was right. It turned out that the patient, a laborer living in a skid row hotel, had been hired to help treat sick turkeys at a 7,000-bird farm on Sauvie Island. With proper antibiotic treatment the laborer is recovering, but 2,000 of the turkeys died. Of 1,500 turkeys...
Napoleonic Whodunit...
...usual sharp eye for the headlines, into the hypertense world of Manhattan advertising agencies and a $1,000,000 quiz contest sponsored by a perfume manufacturer. The murderer shows the bad taste and worse judgment to strike in Wolfe's own home. Not really baffling as a whodunit, but Archie Goodwin, Wolfe's legman, is reliably agreeable company as the yarn-spinner...