Word: murdered
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...CRIME Murder...
...CASE OF THE BAITED HOOK-Erie Stanley Gardner-Morrow ($2). Perry Mason, the lawyer who always gets there ahead of the cops, takes a fat fee one rainy night to keep a masked girl out of trouble. When several unmasked females turn up in the ensuing murder case, he gets mad, comes through in his usual inspired style...
SIXTY-NINE DIAMONDS - Jeremy Lord -Crime Club ($2). Retired Col. Winston Creevy, arriving in La Jolla, Calif, for fun, can't keep his old British beak out of the murder of M. Duval, an unctuous Belgian with a past in the West End. In London the Yard detects furiously by cable. Creevy's end of it is subtler, and finely handled...
...Psychical Institute, an oldtime spook-hunter who likes to spend his vacations in haunted houses. Last week Who Knows? spun a yarn about a composer who came back after death with the finale to a concerto left unfinished at his death. This week a Scotland Yard detective solves a murder mystery by premonition. The trade's handy handle for Who Knows?: Ghost Busters...
...Rogers, Canadian Minister of Defense, promptly and emphatically denied each point of the Hepburn accusation, invited Mitch and the press to visit the St. Thomas centre and see for themselves. But Mitch weaseled, refused to visit the camp, complained, "You might go to a house the day after a murder was committed there and find no evidence of a disturbance at all." In protest against the Kingfish's undignified antics, this week his right-hand man and Provincial Secretary, Harry Nixon, resigned from the Ontario Cabinet...