Murders in May

MAIGRET TRAVELS SOUTH -- Georges Simenon--Harcourt, Brace ($2).

All the shouting about Frenchman Simenon in U. S. mystery circles is well justified by these two novelettes. Liberty Bar finds Inspector Maigret at Antibes, in the curious business of Madame Jaja, Sylvie the tart and dead Mr. Brown. In The Madman of Bergerac, Maigret jumps off the careening Paris-Bordeaux express, is promptly shot. Convalescing in a provincial town, he mixes into the local murders and scandals, which are something for a town that size. Refreshing stories, very French.

WHILE SHE SLEEPS--Ethel Lina White --Harper ($2). Until she won the Irish Sweeps and bought three houses, the luck of Miss Loveapple was phenomenal. Thereafter she suffered the most appalling terrors and misadventures. A scalp-dewer if ever there was one.

THE LADY WEPT ALONE--Carolyn Byrd Dawson--Crime Club ($2). Miss Matilda Brockett, the Grand Old Lady of the whole town, and Sheriff Tim Hammond untangle the jams into which Jay Halliday's shooting plunges his wife, exwife, Andy the ex-wife's suitor, etc.

THE HANGMAN'S WHIP--Mignon G. Eberhart--Doubleday Doran ($2). Carefully plotted around the Abbott family--Aunt Ludmilla, who is being arsenicked; Cousin Search (a girl), and Diana. Principal crime: the hanging of a mean woman who won't divorce the man Search wants to marry. Motive: money.

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