Murders of the Month

MURDER MUST ADVERTISE--Dorothy L. Sayres--Harcourt, Brace ($2).

Rich Lord Peter Wimsey turns advertiser to solve a dubious death. He earns his four quid a week, writes many a jesting line ("The Skeleton in the Water-closet," "Snagsbury's Soups Are Best for the Troops"). The burlesqued but convincing description of an advertising agency is from first-hand knowledge; Author Dorothy Sayres has been a successful copywriter in a London agency. More than that, she is a member of London's famed Detection Club, an informal organization for promoting honesty and high literary standards in fictional crime-solving. "No Mumbo-Jumbo, Jiggery-Pokery, Death Rays, not even Trap Doors." This, sworn on the oath "as you hope to increase your sales," is part of the ritual of the Detection Club, devised by such members as Anthony Berkeley, Agatha Christie, G. K. Chesterton. Year ago appeared The Floating Admiral, joint production of 13 members, a chapter by each. But most of the infrequent and irregular meetings are given over to pleasant shop talk, the hilarious initiation of new members.

THE MERIWETHER MYSTERY -- Kay Cleaver Strahan -- Crime Club ($2). When the smalltown police were baffled by too many clues, Lynn MacDonald selected the murderer from among the eight remaining boarders.

MURDER ON SHADOW ISLAND--Garnett Weston--Farrar & Rinehart ($2). Multiple murders in the Thousand Islands, with discovery based on a single clue.

DEATH POINTS A FINGER--Wrill Levin-rew--Mystery League ($.50). Eleven Civil War veterans are freed from fear by Professor Brierly's logic.

THE BIRD CAGE--Eimar O'Duffy-- Kinsey ($2). Disappearance and murder in an English tavern lead to the killing of an investigator, but the twister is trapped.

THE FIGURE of EIGHT--Cecil Waye-- Kinsey ($2). Central American intrigue in London leads to four poison murders. THE NIGHT OF

THE NIGHT OF THE 12TH-13TH-- Andre Steeman--Lippincott ($2). Murder solution by proxy confession.

ENCORE THE LONE WOLF--Louis Joseph Vance--Lippincott ($2). The Lanyards, father & son, turned respectable, fight a marauding gang.

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