Word: murdering
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...specializes in murder," wrote Crosby, "so naturally it has a lusty collection of these bridges." His favorite finds: There's a Face in the Window; Quick! Follow That Car; Macabre, Running Motor; and, for a really gruesome situation, Out of the Dark Valley Came Slimy Crawling Things...
...Libby Holman became the wife of 20-year-old Zachary Smith Reynolds, moody, eccentric heir to $28 million of the Camel cigarette fortune. Seven months after the wedding, he was shot through the head at a drunken party. Libby and a friend of Reynolds' were indicted for murder, then freed because of lack of evidence against them, and because there were indications that Reynolds had been thinking of suicide...
...patient in the hospital, Widmark baits Poitier mercilessly, dupes the dead man's ex-wife (Linda Darnell) into igniting a race riot. Poitier, who gets the nasty job of treating the riot's white victims, finally forces an autopsy by falsely confessing to the patient's murder...
World Enough and Time, by Robert Penn Warren. Political intrigue, murder, and a good man's struggles of conscience in early 19th Century Kentucky; a rich, uneven historical novel by the author of All the King's Men (TIME, June...
Follow Me Down, by Shelby Foote. How a God-fearing Mississippi farmer is seized by temptation and driven to murder; a taut little novel of crime & passion. (TIME, July...