Murder in October

Best mysteries of the month:

A COFFIN FOR DIMITRIOS--Eric Ambler --Knopf ($2). An English detectifiction writer sets out to trace the career of a shady Greek fig-packer whose stabbed body he saw in a Turkish morgue. Author Ambler, international traveler, scripter for Alexander Korda, artfully interweaves spidery intrigue and murder mystery.

CROOKED SHADOW--Kurt Steel--Little, Brown ($2). Private sleuth Henry Hyer falls foul of a Long Island Nazi gang who framed his young assistant for murder. The plot's intrigues are given a sombre speciousness by current events and nimble writing.

THE CRYING SISTERS--Mabel Seeley--Crime Club ($2). As creepy as Author Seeley's The Listening House, this one plunges a blameless Minnesota librarian into murderous enigmas when she agrees to care for a widower's small son at a resort on Crying Sisters Lake.

THE GOLDEN SWAN MURDER--Dorothy Cameron Disney--Random House ($2). Summoned hysterically to Hollywood by her glamor-girl niece, testy spinster Susan Page of Philadelphia finds the G. G.'s ex-husband murdered in a fancy gilded bed. Susan's spinster intuition. . . .

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