Murders of the Month

(Listed in order of merit)

THE KENNEL MURDER CASE--S. S. Van Dine--Scribner ($2). There were half-a-dozen suspects when Heath, with Philo Vance's help, discovered that the corpse in the locked room really represented murder, not suicide. Erudition on Chinese ceramics and Scottie-breeding (carefully annotated) enables Vance to catch the culprit.

THE WHITE COCKATOO--Mignon G. Eberhart--Crime Club ($2). A handful of out-of-season guests in a rambling French hotel meet an anonymous corpse on the dark stair, followed by shots in the night, impersonations, intrigue, two more murders.

I'LL TELL YOU EVERYTHING--J. B. Priestley & Gerald Bullett--Macmillan ($2). That box--for its contents men die, kingdoms totter, the sanctity of a good woman is at stake. An earnest young professor pursues it. learns to swashbuckle, to lady-chase.

DOCUMENTS OF MURDER--T. C. H. Jacobs--Macaulay ($2). Fiend Bronkhorst, master spy, kills casually thrice a day. Scotland Yard and Secret Service, hand in hand, win through in time to prevent world cataclysm.

IN TIME FOR MURDER--R. A. J. Walling--Morrow ($2). The curious Mr. Tolfree, a few seconds behind murder, snoops around busily until the killer-robber is found.

THE MYSTERY OF THE FRIGHTENED LADY--Edgar Wallace--Crime Club ($2). Stranglers work in Mark's Priory. Scotland Yard Boys Tanner & Totty clip the fiend at the end of a red scarf trail.

MURDER IN FULL FLIGHT--Marcus Magill--Lippincott ($2). The corpse plunges from the sky. 'Twas murder, after the plans were found missing. A she-crook leaves sufficient track to trace the culprits, occasionally by plane.

THE CRIME IN THE CRYSTAL--Robert Hare--Longmans, Green ($2). A famed British artist is alternately suspected of being an accomplice, a murderer, a victim. Not entirely innocent, he is vindicated.

SLADE OF THE YARD--Richard Essex-- McBride ($2). Lessinger confounded Scotland Yard, until Slade (formerly John Barrel, M. P.) sought sleuthing as a road from shame.

MY LADY DANGEROUS--Sydney Horler --Harper ($2). The British Secret Service uses a female decoy to frustrate an arch-plotter; the Empire is saved anew.

MURDER AT ENDOR--William Almon Wolff--Minton, Balch ($2). Tragedy shadowed the Major's "Southern" mansion in New Jersey; the suspected young journalist clears the family name.

THE NAMELESS CRIME--Walter S. Masterman--Button ($2). Scotland Yard spots, but does not punish, the murderer.

PLUNDER--Frederic F. Van de Water-- Crime Club ($2). State Cop Tarleton loses his man, his job; fights the gangs alone.

THE MURDER OF SIGURD SHARON--H. Ashbrook--Coward-McCann ($2). Spike Tracy reads books in the New York Public Library to solve this one.

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