Word: sleuths
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1930
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Vancouver Kiwanians squirmed with discomfort last week. Other thoughtful citizens deplored. U. S. visitors were in a ferment of indignation. For, despite many a protest, Vancouver's loud evening Sun ("Vancouver's most useful institution") was publishing serially The Strange Death of President Harding by onetime Federal Sleuth Gaston B. Means (TIME, March 31). The U. S. Consul General was besieged with outraged demands for formal action. One Californian wired to Senator Hiram Johnson urging "proper protest against . . . insult." Nothing happened. The Strange Death of President Harding was widely circulated and reported in the U. S. last spring...
...definitely dead." "I've done with him," he said. "To tell the truth, I'm rather tired of hearing myself described as the author of Sherlock Holmes. One would think that I had written nothing but detective stories."* Asked if there was a prototype for his celebrated sleuth, said he: "Most certainly there was. He was an Edinburgh doctor under whom I studied. He had an uncanny gift of drawing large inferences from small observations. When I tried to draw a detective, naturally I thought of Dr. Bell and his methods. . . . Watson was just an average...
Temple Tower (Fox). This is an attempted sequel to Bulldog Drummond, a picture hailed by critics as one of the best crook stories ever filmed. Temple Tower is silly, complicated. Kenneth McKenna, a slim and boyish sleuth who dresses in dinner clothes and an opera hat even while staying in a town defined by the local innkeeper as "the loneliest place in England," is engaged in tracking down an elderly emerald thief who lives in a tower equipped with bloodhounds, secret passages, a beautiful girl, and a masked hunchback with a penchant for strangling people with his bare hands. Typical...