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...Earle Stanley Gardner's whodunit, The Case of the Counterfeit Eye, a San Francisco eyemaker named Sidney O. Noles solved an optical mystery. Readers who looked up Noles's name in the San Francisco telephone book found it. No fictional character, Eye-Maker Noles sells glass eyes at $10 to $20 apiece, says the detective story was the best advertising he ever...
...deep has been the mystery sur rounding U.S. Government politicking in the strategic oil regions of the world that no one could even tell whether a murder had been committed, let alone whodunit...
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Topper Returns (United Artists) is the straightforward title to a roundabout whodunit. As on two previous occasions, Cosmo Topper, Thorne Smith's shy, baffled little gentleman who consorts with ghosts, is played by wispy Roland Young. This time his customary bewilderment is complicated by a murder in a creaky old manse with sliding panels and secret passageways...
Directed by grey, crop-haired Major W. S. ("Woody") Van Dyke II, U. S. M. C., Rage in Heaven is the kind of swift, smooth whodunit which Hollywood can achieve by letting its good performers perform without unnecessary interference. Well fitted for such free rein is Swedish-born Ingrid Bergman, who makes a patterned ingénue role as important as many a prima donna's meatiest dramatic excursion...