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...friend of half the aristocracy of Europe, Frau Anna Sacher is an Austrian butcher's daughter, who ran, until last week, Vienna's stately Hotel Sacher. Short and fat, not unlike a dignified Emil Jannings in a curled wig, Frau Sacher used to move through the ancient corridors of her hotel, puffing on a long black cheroot, followed by two fat, asthmatic bulldogs. She never argued with a careless waiter or chambermaid. She boxed their ears soundly and passed...
Presently from the cavernous beehive wig to the trembling spinster issued a stern judgment: "I sentence you to 18 months in gaol for demanding money with menaces from the Rt. Hon. Philip Snowden...
Outside was the dark and curving Soho alley, with the foggy lights of a Singhalese restaurant, a French bookshop, a wig-maker's, an oyster bar. And the room was violently foreign, with frescoes by a sign painter−or a barn-painter: Isola Bella. Fiesole, Castel Sant' Angelo. But Sam did not look at them. He−who but once in his life had attended a Rotary lunch−looked at the Rotary wheel, and his smile was curiously timid. There was no reason for it apparent to him, but suddenly these banners made him feel that...
...course, not as simple as that. Other murders followed. One John Sprigg was shot through the middle of his wig. A scholarly hunchback, whom children called Humpty Dumpty, sat on a wall, had a great fall, was found dead. Then came the slaughter of the suspects−an annoying device which S.S. Van Dine used to better effect in The Greene Murder Case. Shrewd readers should be able to pick the culprit among the two remaining suspects; stupid readers would do well to flip a coin...
...King George III of England, John, Earle of Eldon, has come to Harvard. His expression is captured to the living by a marble bust, which has just been secured for the Harvard Law School by agents in England. He is portrayed as on the bench with full bottom wig, bands and judicial gown...