Something of a renaissance began in 2005 with the publication of a collection of hitherto unpublished short stories, Sleuth's Alchemy, by Crippen and Landru.

Landru was born in Paris.

Initially, Landru was charged only with embezzlement.

Shaw appears incognito ( with an image-inducer ) at a funeral for a mutant boy named Landru.

Landru seems to be " all-seeing " and " all-knowing " with spies everywhere, one of whom turns in the party when he does not recognize them as members of " The Body :" the telepathic collective being, symbiotic with Landru, that most of the inhabitants belong to.

She bore him a daughter, although Landru did not marry her ; he married another woman two years later and had four children.

During World War I, a seemingly respectable middle-aged man Henri Landru has devised an ingenious means of obtaining money to supplement his dwindling income.

The original Landru only wished to create a way to help his failing society achieve peace.

* 1869 – Henri Désiré Landru, French serial killer ( d. 1922 )

The series was so popular that co-creator William Link wrote a series of short stories published as The Columbo Collection ( Crippen & Landru, 2010 ) which includes a drawing by Falk of himself as Columbo, and the cover features a caricature of Falk / Columbo by Al Hirschfeld.

* April 12 – French serial killer Henri Désiré Landru is arrested.

* April 12 – Henri Désiré Landru, French serial killer ( d. 1922 )

* February 25 – Murderer Henri Désiré Landru is beheaded by the guillotine.

* February 25 – Henri Désiré Landru, French serial killer ( executed ) ( b. 1869 )

* Middleton is the fictional hometown of Buster Landru " Rant " Casey in Chuck Palahniuk's novel Rant.

The Adventure of the Murdered Moths ( Crippen & Landru, 2005 ) is the first book edition of the many of the radio scripts.

By 1914, Landru was estranged from his wife and working as a second-hand furniture dealer.

" With World War I under way, many men were being killed in the trenches, leaving plenty of widows upon whom Landru could prey.

Landru would seduce the women who came to his Parisian villa and, after he was given access to their assets, he would kill them and burn their dismembered bodies in his oven.

Between 1914 and 1918, Landru claimed 11 victims: 10 women plus the teenaged son of one of his victims.

With no bodies, the victims were simply listed as missing, and it was virtually impossible for the police to know what had happened to them, as Landru used a wide variety of aliases in his schemes.

Landru stood trial on 11 counts of murder in November 1921.

During his trial Landru traced a picture of his kitchen, including in it the stove in which he was accused of burning his victims.

The 1960 film, Bluebeard's Ten Honeymoons, starred George Sanders as Landru.

The 1962 film Landru, directed by Claude Chabrol, was inspired by the murders.

In the 1963 episode of The Twilight Zone entitled " The New Exhibit ", a wax figure of Landru plays an important role.

A 2005 French movie named Désiré Landru is another adaptation of this story.

Accounts in English include Dennis Barden's The Ladykiller: The Life of Landru, the French Bluebeard and William Bolitho's Murder for Profit.

The murder trial of Weidmann, Million, Blanc and Tricot in Versailles in March 1939 was the biggest since that of Henri Désiré Landru, the modern-day " Bluebeard ", 18 years earlier.

Alfred began to put his affairs in order, and he went about it like a man putting his things into storage.

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When it became apparent that Johnson would lose his seat, an effort began by ally George W. Jones to put forward Johnson's name for governor.

Mather began to publicize and celebrate the trials well before they were put to an end: " If in the midst of the many Dissatisfaction among us, the publication of these Trials may promote such a pious Thankfulness unto God, for Justice being so far executed among us, I shall Re-joyce that God is Glorified ..." ( Wonders of the Invisible World ).

Tin Machine began work on a second album, but Bowie put the venture on hold and made a return to solo work.

When Auckland refused to put the agreement in writing, Dost Mohammad turned his back on the British and began negotiations with Vitkevich.

Although Cephalus was already married to Procris, Eos bore him three sons, including Phaeton and Hesperus, but he then began pining for Procris, causing a disgruntled Eos to return him to her — and put a curse on them.

When he began making longer films in 1902, he put a dissolve between every shot, just as Georges Méliès was already doing, and he frequently had the same action repeated across the dissolves.

Up to this point artificial lighting in studio scenes had always been put on from the front or side-front, but in 1912 there began to be a few cases where light was put onto the actors from arc floodlights out of shot behind them and to one side, to give a kind of backlighting.

Enclosing the image inside static vignettes or masks of shapes other than circular also began to appear in films during the years 1914-1919, including symbolic shapes such as a cruciform cut-out in the Mary Pickford film Stella Maris ( Marshall Neilan, 1918 ), and Maurice Elvey in Britain put romantic scenes inside a heart-shaped mask in Nelson ; The Story of England's Immortal Naval Hero ( 1918 ) and The Rocks of Valpré ( 1919 ).

They also became more dog-like as well: they lost their distinctive musky " fox smell ", became more friendly with humans, put their ears down ( like dogs ), wagged their tails when happy and began to vocalize and bark like domesticated dogs.

" George Fenneman, his radio and TV announcer, good-natured foil, and lifelong friend, often related a story in subsequent years of one of his final visits to Groucho's home: When the time came to end the visit, Fenneman lifted Groucho from his wheelchair, put his arms around his torso, and began to " walk " the frail comedian backwards across the room toward his bed.

Spain was put under a British blockade, and her colonies – for the first time separated from their colonial rulers – began to trade independently with Britain.

Arab governance of all the major ports along the East African coast continued until British interests aimed particularly at securing their ' Indian Jewel ' and creation of a system of trade among individuals began to put pressure on Omani rule.

In the early 1970s Radio Kabul began to broadcast in other languages besides Pashtun which helped to unify those minorities that often felt marginalized, however this was put to a stop with Daoud's revolution in 1973.

Arkady Volsky, an aide to Andropov and other general secretaries, recounts an episode that occurred after a Politburo meeting on the day following Andropov's demise: As Politburo members filed out of the conference hall, either Andrei Gromyko or ( in later accounts ) Dmitriy Ustinov is said to have put his arm round Nikolai Tikhonov's shoulders and said: " It's okay, Kostya is an agreeable guy ( pokladisty muzhik ), one can do business with him ...." The Politburo failed to pass the decision for Gorbachev, who was nominally Chernenko's second in command, to run the meetings of the Politburo itself in the absence of Chernenko ; the latter due to his declining health, began to miss those meetings with increasing frequency.

In 1999, less than a decade after the UN sanctions were put in place, Libya began to make dramatic policy changes in regard to the Western world, including turning over the Lockerbie suspects for trial.

Weyl brought the early period of the development of the theory of Lie groups to fruition, for not only did he classify irreducible representations of semisimple Lie groups and connect the theory of groups with quantum mechanics, but he also put Lie's theory itself on firmer footing by clearly enunciating the distinction between Lie's infinitesimal groups ( i. e., Lie algebras ) and the Lie groups proper, and began investigations of topology of Lie groups ( Borel ( 2001 ), ).

As syntax began to be studied more closely in the early 20th century, in relation to language learning, it became apparent to linguists, psychologists, and philosophers that knowing a language was not merely a matter of associating words with concepts, but that a critical aspect of language involves knowledge of how to put words together — sentences are usually needed in order to communicate successfully, not just isolated words.

In September 1979, Raskin began looking for an engineer who could put together a prototype.

* 1962 – The Evian Accords put an end to the Algerian War of Independence, which began in 1954.

He began to beat his head against a stone to maintain, as he later put it, contact with the physical world.