June Murders

MURDER AT THE SCHOOLHOUSE -- A. B. Cunningham -- Duffon ($2).

Mary Shaw was a mountaineer's daughter who went away to college, came back to Deer Lick to teach school and be murdered. The scandal that came out shook even the Sheriff. Solution: as simple as basket weave.

THE MAN IN THE MOONLIGHT--Helen McCloy -- Morrow ($2). Fairly cerebral story of murder at Yorkville University, where Victim Dr. Konradi, an Austrian, had found refuge and money for biochemical research. When suspects refuse a lie-detector test, a psychiatric assistant to the D. A. does his stuff.

THREE NAMES FOR MURDER --Harriette R. Campbell--Harper ($2).

Good intrigue in Tzembia (the Balkans), involving troubled Senator Stephen Lucat, his wife and his mistress. Simon Brade goes over from London with Sir Jeremy Dantry of His Majesty's Intelligence Service. Gaetana, the mistress, runs off with a magician. Simon, who collects Chinese porcelain, runs off with the honors.

WHERE THERE'S A WILL -- Rex Stout--Farrar & Rinehart ($2). April, May and June Hawthorne, three weird sisters, take the woes of their brother's will to lazy, orchid-loving Nero Wolfe.

Though Legman Archie Goodwin is on hand, Wolfe this time actually goes out of his house. Murders and flowers.

WIVES TO BURN and MIDNIGHT SAILING -- Lawrence G. Blochman --Harcourt, Brace ($2). Two excellent novelettes about death, India, a ship afire at sea. For the Somerset Maugham trade.

STREAMLINED MURDER -- Sue MocVeigh -- Houghton Mifflin ($2). A poisoning on the Shooting Star's trial run --Manhattan to Chicago in 14 hours. The engineer perishes from sodium arsenite before he ever pulls the throttle. En route some passengers swallow the same stuff: one dies. Denouement: a tribute to Diesel electric engines.

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