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...their big problems was the wild, tattooed Picts, who kept the northern end of the island in continual uproar. Fenced off at last by the famed Roman walls, the Picts remained as a troublesome relic of barbarism on the edge of the Roman empire. In Archaeology, J.R.C. Hamilton, assistant inspector of ancient monuments for Scotland, tells about excavations that reveal how the wild Picts lived...
...Merry of St.. Jim's; Hilda Richards, creator of Bessie Bunter; Ralph Redway for the Rio Kid; Peter Todd for Herlock Sholmes; and Owen Conquest for Jimmy Silver. But mostly, Charles Hamilton is Bunter's creator, Frank Richards. "To relatives and bankers and the inspector of taxes," says he. "I am still Charles Hamilton; to everybody else, including myself, [I am] Frank Richards...
...corpse of Dagmar Peters was the only clue Scotland Yard's Inspector Robert Fabian had when he arrived on the scene. The man whom the British press calls "the greatest detective in the world" may have been temporarily stymied, but he was not permanently stumped. In this and the 30 other cases he re-enacts in Fabian of the Yard, the inspector relies mostly on elementary, patient common sense and laboratory work, but he flashes enough intuitive genius to hold his own with the best of the fictional homicide squad-Holmes, Maigret, Philo Vance and Nero Wolfe...
Perfect Timing. In Port Huron, Mich., less than an hour after Building Inspector Roy Monroe inspected and condemned a city-owned warehouse, it collapsed...
Servant of the Crown. On Norfolk Island, 870 miles off the Australian coast, the inhabitants were looking for one man to be their 1) forest ranger, 2) police force, 3) bailiff, 4) jailer, 5) examiner of livestock and slaughterhouses, 6) inspector of noxious weeds...