Word: murdering
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...framework of the British Empire is a world war every quarter-century, why then, bring over the Stars and Stripes! Not that we aren't sorry for the British or like Hitler; but all this suddenly revived glorification of British Democracy by the same crew who assisted the murder of CzechoSlovak and Spanish brands of it -well, that just won't go away, like a bad smell...
...stretching from the prison chuck wagon. Four hard-eyed mounted riflemen watched them. Six other armed guards waited near by. The stockade-Cummins Prison Farm in southeast Arkansas-was three miles away. Here were pea fields where the convicts had been working all morning. They were a tough crew, murderers, robbers, rapists, kidnappers-men like Frank Conley, who at 34 had a 21-year sentence for robbery and kidnapping; like Percy Loftin, who at 25 faced life plus 52 additional years for murder, robbery and kidnapping. Their guards were tough, some of them trusties-Arkansas law permits trusties...
Next day Judge Carranza Trujillo committed Trotsky's assassin, pale, dark Frank Jackson, to trial for murder, committed Jackson's girl friend, Sylvia Ageloff, as accessory before the fact. The problem of Mexico City's tough, efficient police was not so much to make them talk as to keep them from being rubbed out before they talked too much...
...Boxer (a dog) makes his debut with the familiar cast of Homer Evans, detective, dead-eye Miriam, Inspector Fremont and his dusky Hydrangea, Hjalmar Jansen the crockery smasher, the Singe, Godo the Whack, et al., roister-doistering from Paris to Rouen and back by water, land and haystack. Funniest murder story yet from veteran Mr. Paul, whose higher-browed books include The Life & Death of a Spanish Town...
MAIGRET ABROAD-Georges Sime-non-Harcourf, Brace ($2). In Holland, the imperturbable Inspector Maigret deals with a crime of passion: the popping off of philandering Popinga. Maigret makes his pick and hands the case to Detective Pijpekamp for the kill. Proceeding then to Belgium, Maigret solves a murder at the Gai-Moulin in Liege. Principal actors are Adele, a danseuse, and two ne'er-do-well youths, always broke...