The «Canary» Murder Case / Смерть Канарейки. Книга для чтения на английском языке. Стивен Ван Дайн
автору. –
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rôle
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première danseuse
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Written especially for her by B. G. De Sylva.
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amicus curiae
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“The Benson Murder Case”.
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The Loeb-Leopold crime, the Dorothy King case, and the Hall-Mills murder came later; but the Canary murder proved fully as conspicuous a case as the Nan Patterson “Caesar” Young affair, Durant’s murder of Blanche Lamont and Minnie Williams in San Francisco, the Molineux arsenic-poisoning case, and the Carlyle Harris morphine murder. To find a parallel in point of public interest one must recall the Borden double-murder in Fall River, the Thaw case, the shooting of Elwell, and the Rosenthal murder.
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The case referred to here was that of Mrs. Elinor Quiggly, a wealthy widow living at the Adlon Hotel in West 96th Street. She was found on the morning of September 5 suffocated by a gag which had been placed on her by robbers who had evidently followed her home from the Club Turque—a small but luxurious all-night café at 89 West 48th Street. The killing of the two detectives, McQuade and Cannison, was, the police believe, due to the fact that they were in possession of incriminating evidence against the perpetrators of the crime. Jewellery amounting to over $50,000 was stolen from the Quiggly apartment.
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The Stuyvesant was a large club, somewhat in the nature of a glorified hotel; and its extensive membership was drawn largely from the political, legal, and financial ranks.
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The case to which Vance referred, I ascertained later, was Shatterham v. Shatterham, 417 Mich., 79—a testamentary case.
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Pithecanthropus erectus
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partie carrée
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objets d’art
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coiffure d’or
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Bien, mon vieux
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Allons-y!
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Heath had become acquainted with Vance during the investigation of the Benson murder case two months previously.
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bonbonnière
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rigor mortis
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medicus
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It is an interesting fact that for the nineteen years he had been connected with the New York Police Department, he had been referred to, by his superiors and subordinates alike, as “the Professor.”
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fin-de-siècle
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mademoiselle
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demoiselle
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fille de joie
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inamorati
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ja
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His full name was William Elmer Jessup, and he had been attached to the 308th Infantry of the 77th Division of the Overseas Forces.
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boudoir racontage
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soirée
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outré
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in statu quo
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perdu
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bonne
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amoroso
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fille de chambre
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conversazione
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Grau, teurer Freund, ist alle Theorie!
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ergo