For the radio, the 1930s was a golden age. At the start of the decade 12 million American households owned a radio, and by 1939 this total had exploded to more than 28 million. But why was this ...
Since the mid-1930's, the Department of Legal Medicine has twice each year held a seminar on violent death, a seminar open only to qualified police detectives with extensive experience in the ...
Penguin Random House. 6. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett (1930) The Maltese Falcon follows detective Sam Spade, who works in San Francisco with his partner, Miles Archer. When the seductive ...
As the threat of Nazism started to loom over Europe in the 1930s, a Polish-Jewish businessman called Joseph Sapir travelled to three different banking centres – London, Paris and Geneva – to deposit ...
The impetus of this King Beat headline is a post that Stephen King published on his personal Twitter account this past ...
In the case of the History Detectives, a forensic anthropologist's skill is used ... solved through examination of bones and body fragments, it wasn't until the 1930s that the relationship between ...
a 1930 novel by Dashiel Hammett before headlining a string of short stories from the writer. During this era, stories about ...
They also sit down once again with Julie Rivett, granddaughter of author Dashiell Hammett, about the Flintcraft Parable in his 1930s detective novel The Maltese Falcon. In this exclusive clip ...
The Year's Work in English Studies, Vol. 100, Issue. 1, p. 1307. This History offers a new and comprehensive picture of 1930s British literature. The '30s have often been cast as a literary-historical ...