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Minutes after Suspense was officially ended, Georgia was on the haunt. In all, more than 2,500 phone calls jammed CBS's Manhattan switchboard. Everyone had the same reasonable question: Whodunit? Apparently the scripters thought they had made it plain: "The Creeper" was the locksmith who had just come to fix Georgia's front door. Why, then, had the TV audience been confused...
Holt heads one of the dozen or so research projects that the Department of Physics and the Department of Engineering Sciences are now working on. With the help of graduate assistants, he is trying to solve this cosmic whodunit and thus win another battle in Harvard's war against the unknown...
...claim against the rest of the estate." Still missing were Porter's voluminous personal papers, which Countess Felicia Gizycka, Cissy's daughter, hoped to use in her fight to break her mother's will. Times-Herald staffers were beginning to feel like characters in a whodunit. Last week they told of a circulation hustler who was a little confused about the countesses, ex-countesses and other celebrities in the fight over the will. In a crowded elevator he saw a Times-Herald banner headline: COUNT BERNADOTTE SLAIN. "Gripes," he breathed, "they're getting everyone...
...they do not tell in the book, and neither does anyone else. Most whodunit fans will find Blood on the Dining-Room Floor an elaborate leg pull. It is also an expensive one. Beautifully printed from handset type, handsomely bound, the initial edition (626 copies) sells for $6. As an example of the bookmaker's art, it is a delight to hand & eye. But anyone who buys it merely for the plot deserves to have his nose rubbed in three of Author Stein's sentences: "Out of what. Out of nothing. Silly that...
Author Kendrick, a well-known whodunit writer (Blind Man's Bluff), now apparently setting out for bigger game, has bagged it. This cliché-clogged historical novel is the July choice of the Literary Guild...