Recent Mysteries

CRIME IN CORN WEATHER--Mary M. Atwater--Hought on Mifflin ($2). When old man Breen was killed no one mourned, many had cause to be glad. The little Iowa town's biggest excitement in years made a countywide field-day, but defeated its purpose. A beautifully subtle description of townsfolk, of why murder was done and why neither police nor press knew who did it.

THE SAINT GOES ON--Leslie Charteris --Crime Club ($2). In his best form, Simon Templar twinkles, cuts and shoots his way through three more adventures, involving a ring of jewel thieves, an admiring Peer, a damsel in distress.

THE CASE OF THE COUNTERFEIT EYE-- Erie Stanley Gardner -- Morrow ($2). Hard-case Perry Mason steps briskly into his sixth case (the retainer not so fat as formerly), does a bit of quick charity, slyly tricks "The Law," sleeps for once, and emerges triumphant, ready to plunge into the next maelstrom of chicanery and crime.

THE SYNDICATE MURDERS--William R. Randall--Greenberg ($2). A young journalist and a brilliant Jewish detective become involved in a war between the gangs and an anti-crime brain trust.

JIMMIE DALE AND THE MISSING HOUR --Frank L. Packard--Crime Club ($2). Again the Gray Seal plunges into the Underworld and, exhibiting all his old deftness, quickly repays a debt of honor.

THE HOUSE ON THE ROOF--Mignon G. Eberhart--Doubleday, Doran ($2). The usual rainstorm, with better-than-usual characterizations, including an aging singer, a nice young girl, a nice young man, by an increasingly popular young author.

KEEP AWAY FROM WATER! -- Alice Campbell--Farrar & Rinehart ($2). A rich spinster seeks unsuccessfully to escape threatened murder. Serialized in the New York Daily News.

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