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FATAL DESCENT-John Rhode & Carter Dickson-Dodd, Mead ($2). A meticulous Scotland Yard inspector and a theorizing police surgeon solve the shooting of a London publisher in his private elevator. Humorous, with an ingenious solution of the hermetically-sealed-room problem...
...August morning in 1937, Inspector Norman R. Arthur was patrolling the harbor of Honolulu looking for violators of the Federal law against dumping garbage into U. S. waters. Around 10 o'clock, as he eased his motor sampan under the overhanging stern of the Dollar Steamship Lines steamer, President Coolidge, he obtained first-hand evidence. A Chinese mess boy leaned over the rail and dumped a pail of swill, "cabbage, orange peel, celery, tea leaves and water," squarely on Inspector Arthur's head...
When the case came to trial the insulted U. S. inspector was unshakable in his testimony. A U. S. judge in Hawaii fined the Coolidge $500. Last week in San Francisco the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the $500 paid. But meanwhile, in this complicated world, Dollar Lines has been taken over by the American President Line and the American President Line has the Government of the U. S. behind it. Net result: from the U. S. subsidized line to the U. S. inspector's employer, $500 for garbage inopportunely dumped...
...pubs. He threatens to fire the schoolmaster unless he gives up his Protestant sweetheart. He badgers a spirited girl (Jessica Tandy) who will not knuckle under. Finally, he attempts to override the law. But he goes too far-the worm of a schoolmaster turns, the police inspector gives as good as he gets. the defiant girl stands her ground. Shaughnessy foments an uproar which it takes all the bluff diplomacy of the old Canon to quell...
Poking behind some furniture in a shed near the McKesson & Robbins plant in Bridgeport, Conn, one day last week, Post Office Inspector Samuel MacLennan found two old ledgers. They contained the record, written in his own hand, of 16 of the 18 years that Philip Musica lived and swindled as F. Donald Coster. Confronted with the diaries, the three surviving Musicas promptly pleaded guilty to violation of the Securities & Exchange Act. SEC Examiner Adrian S. Humphrey thought them so important that he adjourned his inquiry until the ledgers had been studied...