Oxford DNB remembers Israel Zangwill.

Israel Zangwill. NYPL.

One of Oxford Dictionary of National Biography's Lives of the Week is Israel Zangwill (1864–1926), author of The Big Bow Mystery (1891).

Below: Clip from The Verdict (1946, dir. Don Siegel), with Sidney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre, based on Zangwill's The Big Bow Mystery.