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Some romance usually invests anyone who violates the social code in a grand manner, but no romance relieves the drab career of Walter Wolf, embezzler extraordinary. He stole upward of $2,000,000, perhaps as much as $4,000,000, and never benefited materially from a cent of it, nor did anyone else except the brokers. Wolf and his wife and daughter lived and dressed simply, their car was small, his recreation was gardening about his home, he attended the local Lutheran church. His superiors considered him the faithful plodding kind who might...
Romance. But unexpected romance saved the Commission's exit from being altogether drab. When Dean Roscoe Pound of the Harvard Law School, second only to Chairman George Woodward Wickersham in legal eminence, went to Washington in 1929 to serve his President as a commissioner, he put up at the Lafayette Hotel on 16th Street. Who should also be staying there but Mrs. Lucy Berry Miller, widow of his old Washington friend, Dr. James E. Miller. When Dean Pound, himself a widower, was not hard at work at the Commission's headquarters, he courted Mrs. Miller about the hotel and elsewhere...
...Corpse in the Constable's Garden" is a story frankly intended for those who like their crime in easy doses with sugar and water. Country parsons, irate squires, several drab daughters, and a handful of good-natured college lads make up the personnel. There is only one death, which is rather late in coming, and most of the 295 pages are given to the narration of family scandals, repressed emotions, and a few glimpses of what a parson's past...
...glassy sea of crime fiction this book bursts up like a breaching sea-serpent. . . . If you have a sneaking suspicion that the general run of detective stones are drab, mechanical, unconvincing ?in short, not so well done as they might be?read The Glass Key and have your suspicion confirmed. Defenders of the old-line detective story might object that The Glass Key is less a detective than a crime story. But whether you are a squeamish voyager among books or so hardened that the roaring forties seem like the doldrums, this book will be a portent...
Winner: a drab-appearing Englishman who not only works for peace but toils for it 365 days every year: Sir Eric Drummond, secretary general of the League of Nations...