Murders of the Month

TOWER OF TERROR--Joseph I. Lawrence--Macaulay ($2).

Timely cashing-in on the kidnapping epidemic, wherein the "phoney"' disappearance of a banker becomes real. In his fortified Park Avenue penthouse, a dozen others, guards and guarded, fret, stab and shoot, the good finally departing over the corpses of the bad.

TRANSATLANTIC GHOST-- Dorothy Gardiner--Crime Club ($2).

A fantastic, false-toothed, green-wigged old dame knew, but left a retired New York detective to find out, who committed the murder in the locked room of the California castle.

THE MYSTERY OF THE CAPE COD PLAYERS--Phoebe Atwood Taylor--Norton ($2).

"Red" Gilpin, lady-charming magician in a summer vaudeville troupe, is shot on a Cape Cod bluff. Asey Mayo, shrewd Yankee with two murder solutions already to his credit, makes much of a strangled skunk, lets the murderer commit suicide.

MYSTERY OF THE DEAD POLICE--Philip MacDonald--Crime Club ($2).

London bobbies are killed like flies before two clever amateurs--who work with Scotland Yard because one wants to marry the Chief Commissioner's daughter--most ingeniously trap the monomaniac and his big black diary.

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