March Murders

TRAITOR'S PURSE--Margery Alllngham --Crime Club ($2). Daffy from a copper's clout, Albert Campion sheds his amnesia in time's nick, saves England from civil commotion. Present are Manservant Lugg and Lady Amanda Fritton, Campion's fiancee. Another of Margery Allingham's well-made, well-mannered British stories.

THE PATRIOTIC MURDERS -- Agatha Christie -- Dodd, Mead ($2). Dead in London: Hercule Poirot's dentist, Amberiotis the Greek, a faceless lady in a trunk. These lead the great French detective to a callous and murderous egomaniac.

THE RIGHT MURDER--Craig Rice -Simon & Schuster ($2). In this sequel to The Wrong Murder, Mona McClane makes good her boast: she'll commit murder in the public streets in full view of witnesses and go free. Another fine, tough, drunken frenzy--American style.

SPILL THE JACKPOT -- A. A. Fair -Morrow ($2). How to milk a slot machine is one of the valuable tips herein offered by Bertha Cool and Donald Lam, hired not to find a vanished bride. But they find her after the No. 1 Milker's sidekick is murdered.

MURDERS IN VOLUME 2 -- Elizabeth Daly -- Farrar & Rinehart ($2). Henry Gamadge, scholarly detector of fake books, takes on a spot of work for the old New York Vauregards, finds it bloodier by far than printer's ink.

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