Word: yarns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...THROAT - Ethel Lina White -Harper ($2). The dark secret of a long-vacant house in an English town terrorized by a homicidal maniac who plays hob with the nerves of a pretty young governess. She barely escapes death in leading police to the solution of a super-spooky yarn. The author of The Wheel Spins (filmed as The Lady Vanishes) turns in another master thriller...
...eremitical pulpwriter in his rural Connecticut retreat causes the convocation of an amazing coroner's jury. The testimony presented, the diary of one juror with an unfortunate flair for amateur detection, and the sly sleuthing of Coroner Slocum make up the year's most intelligently hilarious mystery yarn...
However, in the past three months some startling innovations have been made. The Government now produces cotton at fixed prices and furnishes it to machine spinners. It distributes yarn to weavers, who cross it with hand-spun yarn to weave cloth. This is turned over at fixed prices to the Commodity Administration, which in turn sells it at Government stores at prices 25% lower than the market...
HAUNTED LADY-Mary Roberts Rinehart-Farrar & Rinehart ($2). Nurse Adams is deputized by a police commissioner to watch over a wealthy widow whose bedroom is inexplicably visited by bats and rats. Outwitted momentarily by a clever murderer, Nurse Adams finally forces a confession. A clean-cut, quick-stepping yarn, minus the garrulous complexities of recent Rinehart stories...
...Madame Absalom, who kept the yarn shop, avidly scanned the local press of Clermont-Ferrand every day "in gleeful anticipation of the demise of her 'ex,' as she called him. . . ." He suffered from rheumatism and a facial tic which she could imitate to perfection...