Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 40, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 June 1928 — Page 8

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CHINESE DETECTIVE SOLVES A MYSTERY {The Thinking-Out Process Is Used by Charlie Chan in ‘Behind That Curtain,’ a New Novel by Earl Derr Biggers. BY WALTER D. HICKMAN. fT'HE latest fad seems to be a member of a mystery club. Such a club is being formed in various ways, but a popular way seems to be to read a mystery story and then invite your friends over and talk mystery. Have recently been cn such parties and they are great fun. really. In this way a desire to read mystery or detective stories is stimulated. Among the many new detective yarns recently published, “Behind £That Curtain,” by Earl Derr Biggers, published by the Bobbs-Merrill Company of Indianapolis, is receiving a lot of attention.

Here is a good story to talk about 'when the folks hold a mystery club meeting. You are concerned chiefly with the murder of a great detective IDs Scotland Yard by the name of Sir Frederic Bruce. The deed happens in a big office building in San Francisco just as the great man was solving two mysteries at one time—what happened to Uve Durand? and who murdered Hilary Galt, a solicitor, in London? • Eve Durand, the Galt murder and the murder of the great detective hav* all been worked out by the author of this story into a solid chain of moving events. Here is unusual construction, effectively written. In other words. I am sure that you will find “Behind That Curtain” is corking good theater. Here you see a clever Oriental detective “thinking out” three mysteries. If you want a sensible detective yarn, then you will do well to get acquainted with Sergeant Chan in this new Earl Derr Biggers story.

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MEMORY CONTEST WINNERS CHOSEN

Well folks, the Contest Editor of The Indianapolis Times is ready to announce the winner of the third identification picture contest that The Indianapolis Times and Loew’s Palace Theater have been* sponsoring for five days. Yesterday the winners of the first two contests were announced and their prizes wili be mailed to them, as well as tickets to the twenty others who will receive a pair of ttekets each to see Lillian Gish in ‘The Enemy,” her latest picture. Hazel Hollingsworth has submitted the best slogan for the third picture, that of Miss Gish in “The Scarlet Letter” and it is as follows: “The Divine Sinner.” The contest editor thinks that is a pretty good discriptive title for the part of Hester Payne. Miss Hollingsworth lives at 1404 Finley St.. Indianapolis. Ten pairs of tickets will be received as prizes by the following ten persons, who, in the estimation of the contest editor, submitted the ten next best slogans for “The Scarlet Letter”: S. M. Brown. 1611 S. Eastern Ave.; Miss Dimmerous Pulliam, 2522 E. Washington St.; Mrs. Helen Dorsett, Danville, Ind.; Mrs. J. B. Hold, 2616 N. Illinois St.; Nixola Morton, 241 W. New York St.; Mrs. Dorothy Jones, 954 W. Thirty-Third St.; Esther Silverman, 1523 Madison Ave.; Mrs. Charles Mosley, 124 W. Twenty-Eighth St.; Hayden Frye, R. R. 6 Box 134, and Mrs. F. H. Knauer, 5102 Winthrop Ave. In case the same person receives

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