Murders of the Month
THE CARNIVAL MURDER -- Nicholas Brady--Holt ($2). Her throat cut by a dagger, the Fat Lady lies murdered in her tent. Rev. Eb. Buckle sloshes about in the rain, helping the constabulary. Beer, boiled beef and a bucket expose both the freak racket and the killer.
THE SULU SEA MURDERS--Van Wyck Mason--Crime Club ($2). Captain North of the Army Intelligence perspires freely while solving murder in a tropical outpost. Pearls, meteorology and domestic polyangle show the clues to the culprit.
THE DEVIL'S DEN--Lawrence Saunders --Covici, Friede ($2). Murder in Connecticut's swank art colony; investigation by ex-Fireman Lundberg and friend stirs up scandal but exposes the criminal.
THE DRAGON MURDER CASE--S. S. Van Dine--Scribner ($2). Philo Vance is this time erudite on tropical fish, and very up-to-date mechanically on the dragon footprints littering the bottom of the swimming pool.
THE MASTER MURDERER -- Carolyn Wells--Lippincott ($2). Fleming Stone pins the simultaneous slaughter of the four rich Everetts on the lad whose soup spoon wavered.
THE STRANGE MURDER OF HATTON, K. C.--Herbert Adams--Lippincott ($2). An honest oldster, dead of a dagger in his eye, upsets a houseparty. Thereafter follow arson, blackmail and attempted murder.
IN THE FIRST DEGREE--Roger Scarlett --Crime Club ($2). Inspector Kane becomes one of a weird Boston family to avert a murder. Unsuccessful, he at least discloses their queer actions and motives.
THE CRANK IN THE CORNER--Christopher Bush -- Morrow ($2). Ludovic Travers, traveling, encounters murder in his own compartment. Himself suspect, he investigates, shares honors with both Surete and Scotland Yard.
DESTROYING ANGEL--Norman Kline-- Farrar & Rinehart ($2). Tangled domestic relations, entwined with murder, bring Detective Jones to Up-the-Hudson society. Loud boorishness relieves him of the case, but a hunch proving correct brings the solution and his recall.
THE RETURN of RAFFLES -- Barry Perowne--Day ($2). Raffles and Bunny, resurrected, repaired and rejuvenated, share three adventures. Plentifully supplied with Sullivan cigarets, they assist the Law, gather a bit of "nobody's money" on the side.
MURDER OF A BANKER--J. S. Fletcher-- Knopf ($2). Deduction and chase by Chancy and Camberwell. in London.
MENACE -- Philip MacDonald -- Crime Club ($2). The presence of an avenger makes turmoil of an impromptu party.
MURDER DAY BY DAY--Irvin S. Cobb --Bobbs-Merrill ($2). Murder of a scoundrel and his two servants on Long Island provokes this daily account of its investigation, which was previously serialized in newspapers.
Non-Fiction
THE PRIVATE LIFE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES -- Vincent Starrett -- Macmillan ($2). Mystery-writer Starrett makes readable his really scholarly study of the great sleuth.
TRAITORS WITHIN--Herbert T. Fitch-- Doubleday, Doran ($2). Documented memoirs of a real Scotland Yarder, with intimate glimpses of such notables as Lenin, Trotsky, King George, the glamorous Angelica Balabaroff.
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