Murders of the Month

Herewith, in order of merit, are listed detective fiction books of the past month: THE STUDENT FRATERNITY MURDER--Milton Prosper --Bobbs-Merrill ($2). Skilled Detective Rankin points the crime through yellow hoods and yellow hair. THE END OF MR. GARMENT--Vincent Starrett--Crime Club ($2). Stabbing of a famed writer whom many disliked and had opportunity to kill. THE CORPSE ON THE WHITE HOUSE LAWN--''Diplomat"--Covici, Friede ($2). A smart, lucky young diplomat solves the code, retrieves the papers, catches the murderer. THE RESURRECTION MURDER CASE-- Stanley Hart Page--Knopf ($2). Christopher Hand forces self-identification of the murderer by trickery with a skull. POISON IN JEST--John Dickinson Carr -- Harper ($2). Introducing mirth-provoking Detective Rossiter in poison cut. hatchet murder and necrophilia. MURDER IN MARYLAND--Leslie Ford--Farrar & Rinehart ($2 ). The murder of a small town's most hated woman solved by the town's woman doctor. DOUBLE DEATH--Freeman Wills Croft --Harper ($2). Sly tricks in murder on a background of railroad construction. INSPECTOR HIGGINS HURRIES-- Cecil Freeman Gregg--Dial ($2). Twenty-four hours of hurly-burly mystery-solving. CUT THROAT -- Christopher Bush -- Morrow ($2). Much ado about clocks. MURDERER'S LUCK -- Henry Holt -- Crime Club ($2). Multiple killings in rural England. THE SECRET OF THE MORGUE--Frederick G. Eberhard -- Macaulay ($2). Autopsy technique in a story of bootlegging and body-swapping. THE OSTREKOFF JEWEL-- E. Phillips Oppenheim--Little, Broun ($2). A young diplomat gets a princess and her jewels out of revolutionary Russia, with, of course, difficulties. MURDER ON THE GLASS FLOOR--Viola Brothers Shore-- Long & Smith ($2). A liner's new dance floor christened by a murdered woman.

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