Word: closet
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...dropped any water bombs or if he concealed women in his closet, they made very little noise. His proctor remembers him only as Joseph P. Kennedy's son, a quiet youth who had no claims to notoriety...
...hung over every detail of a new thriller that promised to follow the classic tradition. Its setting was the town of Rhyl, a drab Welsh working-class seaside resort. There, one rainy day last May, 29-year-old Leslie Harvey, taxi driver, decided to clean out an old, locked closet on the upstairs landing in the shabby boardinghouse on West Kinmel Street owned by his mother, Mrs. Sarah Jane Harvey, 65. She had been under treatment for a cancerous stomach tumor, and he planned to have the house spruced up as a surprise for her when she got back from...
Grooves on the Neck. An unidentified mummy clearly was too much for Rhyl's local police force, and the call went out for expert help. The Home Office sent Pathologist Dr. Gerald Evans and Biologist Dr. Alan Clift. Entomologists studied the dead moths and flies found in the closet. Also enlisted was a London University Egyptologist who was a specialist on ancient mummies. For weeks the experts studied their find. Unwrapping and comparing a 2,500-year-old mummy from Liverpool University, they measured the shrinkage of the bones to determine that the woman had died two decades...
...theory after another, the experts finally were forced to the conclusion that no chemical had been used to induce mummification; rather, by a "freak of chance," warm air from below the floor, flowing through cracks in the door and out a trap door at the top of the closet, had stopped the normal decay of flesh a few days after death. What was the cause of death? Looking close, Dr. Evans spotted traces of fabric embedded in grooves around the neck. It was the remnant of a length of woman's stocking. At its end was a reef knot...
...nurse, collapsing into sobs only when her son took the stand. But she stuck to her story that Mrs. Knight had been taken suddenly ill one night and died in agony before she could summon a doctor. In panic, said Mrs. Harvey, she had dragged the corpse into the closet; she had collected the money only because she feared she would be accused of murder if the death were discovered. The prosecution's case hung like a thread on the ligature around the mummy's neck...