Murders of the Month

TRUTH CAME OUT&151;E. R. Punshon&151;Houghton Mifflin ($2). Following the trail of a prussic acid theft, Sergeant Bell of Scotland Yard blunders his way into an inspectorship, following his self-denied solution of the crime.

KING COBRA&151;Mark Channing&151;Lippincott ($2). No detective story, but a bold adventure of the Indian Secret Service is this tale of a secret castle, tribal uprising and malevolent villain with temper of tried and true romance.

THE STRANGLED WITNESS&151;Leslie Ford&151;Farrar & Rinehart ($2). Lobbying and espionage in Washington prove lethal as well as lucrative. The murder of the blonde young widow was solved only because Col. Primrose remembered odors and an old custom.

THE TALKING SPARROW MURDERS&151;Darwin L. Teilhet&151; Morrow ($2). The hard times of a murder suspect in Nazi Germany. Previously serialized.

PLAN XVI&151;Douglas G. Browne&151;Crime Club ($2). Planned in war, the terrorism of three super-criminals breaks out 16 years later. Their final coup of piracy brings Navy, Scotland Yard and Journalism to the Empire's rescue and Inspector Thew's promotion.

MR. PIDGEON'S ISLAND&151;Anthony Berkeley&151;Crime Club ($2). Risking expulsion from the Detection Club for a "guessing finale," the author exposes 14 people to a suspicion of murder. Cast away in an environment of suspicion, each of the group exhibits his basic personality, enabling Roger Sheringham to satisfy the reader's conclusion.

THE SECRET OF TANGLES&151;Leonard R. Gribble&151;Lippincott ($2). Two departments of Scotland Yard hand-in-hand untangle murder and an old swindle to vindicate the harried newlyweds.

THE STREET OF SERPENTS&151;Francis Seeding&151;Harper ($2). A romantically inclined young girl risks her savings to find wide-eyed adventure and a man.

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