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...recent weeks the Parliamentary committee investigating I'affaire Stavisky has glossed over even such startling admissions as one by Inspector Le Gall of the Sûrete (Secret Police) that "I would have had 99 chances out of a 100 to capture Stavisky alive if I had been allowed to." This strengthened public conviction that $30,000,000 Swindler Alexandre Stavisky was no suicide but was shot by the Sûrete because highly placed politicians thought he knew too much. For months the Rightist Paris Press has been hammering insinuations of guilt at dapper Deputy Camille Chautemps...
...CHINESE ORANGE MYSTERY-Ellery Queen-Stokes ($2). Ellery and Inspector Queen are balked for a time in a maze of philately and jewel-collecting; but Ellery perspicaciously solves the clue of the "backwards room" and, of course, the murder...
...Torrington, Conn. George C. McGinley, an aeronautical inspector for the Department of Commerce, was cremated when his plane developed motor trouble, crashed and burned...
...City Square "was dispersed by the police before any speeches were made," that "arrests were made without due cause, and with completely unjustified violence," that "three of the arrested men were slugged after they had reached the station house, at least one of them into unconsciousness." It declares that Inspector Goodman and Officer Gouldston of the Boston police are neither "competent to conduct their work" nor "intelligent enough to understand the psychology of the people with whom they are dealing...
Lapin, questioning young Dennett, a Sophomore at Harvard, had established that two days before the demonstration in Charlestown, which provoked the arrests, Dennett had had a conversation at police headquarters with Inspector Benjamin Goodman of the radical squad...