Posthumous Mystery

THE SILENT WITNESS--Melville Davisson Post--Farrar & Rinehart ($1).*

"The great, early judges were of the opinion that the human mind was incapable of fabricating a false consistency of events. At some point there would appear a physical fact to destroy it. This silent witness . . . was always standing in the background to be called by anyone who had the acumen to discover it." In these 13 criminal cases the silent witness is called and comes forward with damning evidence no less than 13 times. In every case it is easy-going old Colonel Braxton ("a mind on him like a whip, suh!") who does the calling. Nothing fools him. He can get to the bottom of a murder, forgery, theft case by glancing at a pane of glass, a parchment, a piece of poplar wood. If you are tired of new-fangled fiction-detective methods, if you still have a warm spot in your heart for the school of Sherlock Holmes, you will give Colonel Braxton your friendly attention. Otherwise do not bother.

The Author. Melville Davisson Post onetime lawyer, oldtime thriller-writer, died last June. He also wrote: Dwellers in the Hills, The Gilded Chair, The Nameless Thing, Walker of the Secret Service, The Bradmoor Murder.

* Published Dec. 4.

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