It may be a woman's gun but that just means it does the same job without being so loud and flashy about it.
Symphonie en 6.35 has one of the nicer French covers we've seen, with its tough femme fatale and outline of a 6.35 mm baby Browning pistol, which was sometimes marketed as a gun women could carry in a purse. Unfortunately the art is uncredited. We know all about the inside of the book, though. It was written by Ange Beaucaire for Éditions Hachette's Collection le Point d' Interrogation. This was Beaucaire's first novel, published in 1954, and is a detective yarn set in the Parisian underworld starring a police commissioner who must solve the murder of a retiree, and later the kidnapping and murder of the retiree's mistress. It all leads to the uncovering of a drug cartel. The book was nominated for a Prix Quai des Orfèvres, which is an award bestowed by a jury composed of not only publishing figures, but cops, judges, and crime journalists, and chaired by whoever happens to be the Director of the Paris Judicial Police at the time. So, nice honor for Beaucaire his first time out. Of course, being French he for some reason wrote under a pseudonym, and in this case the fingers tapping the typewriter actually belonged to Jacques Leblic and Olivier Séchan. The two went on to write at least two other novels. We'll see if we can dig up more info on the cover. We have a few suspicions who did it but we'll refrain from guessing for now.
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The headlines that mattered yesteryear.
1939—Batman Debuts
In Detective Comics #27, DC Comics publishes its second major superhero, Batman, who becomes one of the most popular comic book characters of all time, and then a popular camp television series starring Adam West, and lastly a multi-million dollar movie franchise starring Michael Keaton, then George Clooney, and finally Christian Bale. 1953—Crick and Watson Publish DNA Results
British scientists James D Watson and Francis Crick publish an article detailing their discovery of the existence and structure of deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA, in Nature magazine. Their findings answer one of the oldest and most fundamental questions of biology, that of how living things reproduce themselves. 1967—First Space Program Casualty Occurs
Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov dies in Soyuz 1 when, during re-entry into Earth's atmosphere after more than ten successful orbits, the capsule's main parachute fails to deploy properly, and the backup chute becomes entangled in the first. The capsule's descent is slowed, but it still hits the ground at about 90 mph, at which point it bursts into flames. Komarov is the first human to die during a space mission. 1986—Otto Preminger Dies
Austro–Hungarian film director Otto Preminger, who directed such eternal classics as Laura, Anatomy of a Murder, Carmen Jones, The Man with the Golden Arm, and Stalag 17, and for his efforts earned a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame, dies in New York City, aged 80, from cancer and Alzheimer's disease. 1998—James Earl Ray Dies
The convicted assassin of American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., petty criminal James Earl Ray, dies in prison of hepatitis aged 70, protesting his innocence as he had for decades. Members of the King family who supported Ray's fight to clear his name believed the U.S. Government had been involved in Dr. King's killing, but with Ray's death such questions became moot.
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