Word: whodunitism
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Their acquisitions in turn have stimulated new interest, in every sense of the word. A first edition of D.H. Lawrence's 1915 The Rainbow bought in 1960 for $25 sold 17 years later for $200. Raymond Chandler's classic whodunit The Big Sleep now brings $2,500, up 150% in five years, and John Irving's early novel Setting Free the Bears, bought twelve years ago for $5.95, is worth...
...scientific evidence is helping to show jurors whodunit...
More interesting than the whodunit part of Fuller's play is the "Who the hell was he?" aspect in which Waters' complex character is explored. Waters has tried to scour himself to whiteness through discipline and excellence. He is a martinet who addresses his recruits as "shiftless lazy niggers" and hounds one guitar-strumming vagabond singer, sweetly played by Larry Riley, to his death. "They ought to work you niggers till your legs fall off," he screams at his charges, meaning "snap to and measure up," the one-line basic English catechism of the U.S. regular Army sergeant...
...plus ten equals 20. But the relationship between perfectly proportioned Bo Derek and her similarly endowed sister Kelly Collins seems rather more complex. Kelly, 20, who has worked as a sultry stand-in for her elder sister, is preparing to star in a new film called K.A.O.S., a campus whodunit. Kelly, green at the acting game, confesses she is "scared to death," but is not daunted by her sister's histrionic talents: "Frankly, I haven't seen anything in which Bo showed she could act." Although they may not be in the Olivia de Havilland-Joan Fontaine class...
...Whodunit? The coauthors. The murder weapon: sheer lassitude. What lies on the stage of Broadway's Biltmore Theater is the cadaver of a comic suspense thriller, and not even a warm...