Monday, Nov. 01, 1943
October Mysteries
MR. MIRAKEL --E. Phillips Oppenheim -- Little, Brown ($2). The Oppen-heimily-colored, romantic and adventurous tale of a rich London hotel owner who transported a bevy of war-weary cosmopolites to a fantastic Utopia where man, of course, decided to be entertainingly vile. Good Oppenheim and pleasant diversion for an empty evening.
OLD BONES --Herman Peterson --Duell, Sloan and Pearce ($2). How a family skeleton that strayed from its closet to the bottom of an abandoned standpipe endangered the lives of several likable people and gave a rural doctor his chance to play sleuth. Well written, mystifying, capably plotted.
STALK THE HUNTER --Mitchell Wilson --Simon & Schuster ($2). The crowded U.S. career of a pretty young Czechoslovak girl who found Manhattan a roller coaster of murder, hairbreadth escapes, breakneck chases. A capital spy story, adroitly worked out and crammed with action.
THE AFFAIR "OF THE FAINTING BUTLER --Clifford Knight -- Dodd, Mead ($2).
The poisoning of a Hollywood author and her secretary in a houseful of pestiferous relatives gives scholarly Detective Huntoon Rogers a tough battle with a slick criminal and a belligerent police officer.
Well-contrived plot with a neat final twist.
MURDER IN HAVANA --George Harmon Coxe --Knopf ($2). A speedily paced yarn of intrigue, murder and sultry females in Havana. A U.S. engineer, carrying valuable papers, is the hero. A rare assortment of shady malefactors try to steal his secrets. International villainy served up in Mr. Coxe's best manner.
THE STARS ARE DARK --Peter Cheyney --Dodd, Mead ($2). A chilled-steel story of the unchronicled war between English and Nazi Intelligence officers, with a cashiered Briton regaining his spurs in a ruthless, double-dealing, bloodthirsty battle of guns and wits with Hitler's ace spy. The best of the new espionage yarns.
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