Word: murderously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Shot and killed in 1906 by Playboy Harry Kendall Thaw, whose wife, Evelyn Nesbit, had once been White's mistress. Thaw pleaded temporary insanity, was acquitted of murder in a lurid trial that was a front-page sensation...
...marriage license and a cloud of witnesses. Ryan sticks loyally by, knowing that these things have a way of working themselves out. When Claudette tracks down her supposed husband, a gun goes off behind a closed door, and she is found alone with his corpse. Tried for murder, she is committed to a mental institution in a sequence that looks something like a screen test for The Snake...
...find them. To avoid trouble, he coops himself up in a saloon on a quiet morning while the friendly sheriff (Millard Mitchell), an ex-crony, goes to fetch his wife (Helen Westcott). As Peck waits, trouble seeks him out: a fanatic is gunning for him to avenge a murder he never committed; three brothers of his latest victim are moving in for their own revenge; a cocky young loafer is itching to win glory by beating him to the draw...
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...