Word: whodunitism
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Geological Whodunit. Behind all the excitement, which has sent Canadian oil stocks gushing up as much as 70% in recent months, is a geological thriller to rival any detective story. Back in 1921 Imperial Oil Ltd., Jersey Standard's Canadian subsidiary, tried to tap Great Slave's potential with a test well at Windy Point on the western tip of the huge lake far up in Canada's frozen Northwest Territories. The area was littered with natural oil seeps oozing from a rock strata identified as Devonian limestone. But as so often happens when oil-bearing strata...
Pegasus Robert Johnston's poem about corpses gives the reader a sense of evening calm over 21 South Street. Perhaps what the Advocate needs is a good exciting whodunit for next fall's registration issue...
...finding the bungling gunman before he himself was liquidated by 1) Costello's boys, or 2) his frustrated employers. Costello, his feelings more wounded than his noggin, professed amazement over the incident: "I don't have an enemy in the world." Frankie's best guess on whodunit: "I got some dry holes - supposed to be oil wells-in Wise County, Texas. Maybe some big oil company thinks those wells have oil and tried to bump...
...Life may mean nothing, positive values may be ephemeral dreams, and happiness may be best symbolized by the orgasm, but these are attitudes which at this late date make unstimulating reading. Yet it is the very monotony, the lack of anything difficult or original, which couples with the skillful whodunit to make "A Far Place" an eminently successful diversion. After all, who wants to be stimulated after eight hours in the stacks...
...mystery or the morality that gives the play any life. A split-level whodunit should have more concealed and built-in features: who is guilty is very soon obvious, and as a moral drama, The Hidden River lacks flesh and innards. Not only has the problem created the people, instead of the other way round, but the characters are shown too much under mere scrutiny and too little under stress...