Word: murdering
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...THEME IS MURDER-Gown Holt-Simon and Schuster ($2). Death threats appear on scraps of Wagnerian scores, followed by murder in an English country house. The killing is suavely solved by ex-Scotland Yard Inspector Joel Saber and his wisecracking assistant, Ritzy. A bright horror tale peopled with cheerfully wacky Wodehousean characters...
...work was believed possibly to have accounted for the murder of Dr. Walter Engelberg, secretary of the New York German Consulate, who was found in his house in Brooklyn dressed in an old-fashioned nightgown, lying on his bed with his face battered in. But last week it was no spy whom police arrested but a Canadian pugilist known as Ernie Haas...
...night of the murder, according to police, Haas, whose real name is Ernest Walter Kehler, accompanied Engelberg to his home. There the Nazi secretary, whose curious hobbies included collecting books on nudism, photographs of nude men, made improper advances, Haas-Kehler said...
...neck, Gangster Louis (Lepke) Buchalter, a fugitive for two years, chose as the lesser of two evils to give himself up to the FBI chief. Month ago he slouched into Federal court. Graduate of the Connecticut Reformatory, Sing Sing, ex-loft burglar, racketeer, gorilla chief, suspected of many a murder, Lepke was there to stand trial on the first of ten indictments for smuggling dope...
Moreover, Russian officialdom began to experience a terror which continues to this day. For the murder of Stalin's "Dear Friend," Sergei M. Kirov, head of the Leningrad Soviet, who had once called Comrade Stalin the "greatest leader of all times and all nations," 117 persons were known to have been put to death. That started the fiercest empire-wide purge of modern times. Thousands were executed with only a ghost of a trial. Secret police reigned as ruthlessly over Russia as in Tsarist times. First it was the Cheka, next the OGPU, later the N.K.V.D.-but essentially they...