Word: whodunit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the routine makings of a conventional mystery story, Swiss Author Duerrenmatt produces a well-written and suspenseful story whose sad ironies raise it well above even the best whodunit level...
Marvel of Mobility. Stubborn addicts of the classic whodunit consider the TV Eye a boor. Some paperback browsers, still slavering over Mickey Spillane's sleuthing satyrs, consider him a sissy. But the TV Eye often has more taste than his critics. At his best, he is a healthy step backward toward the hardboiled heroes who swaggered onto the American scene in the novels of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler...
Ellery Queen (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). Rerun of This Murder Comes to You Live, a standard whodunit with a special appeal: this time a TV panelist is murdered on the air. Involved in the happy crime: Geraldine Fitzgerald, Ben Hecht, Ray Walston and Buster Crabbe. Color...
Fire at Sea, by Thomas Gallagher. A suspenseful, factual whodunit about the burning of the cruise ship Morro Castle...
Redhead. Musicomedienne Gwen Verdon is loaded with talent and gallantly spends it all to keep this ne'er-do-well musical whodunit solvent...