Fijits

MURDER IN FIJI--John W. Vandercook --Crime Club ($2).

Author Vandercook plays a detectifiction con-game against an exotic background. A lover of tropic islands (he has visited and written about Haiti, Trinidad, the South Seas), last year he spent three months on Viti Levu, largest of the Fiji Islands. He gives a first-hand picture of its gigantic, fuzzy-haired natives, once cannibals, now peaceable wards of the British Empire; its island-capital, Suva; its still undomesticated rivers, mountains, jungle. Murder in Fiji will cause hardened readers few authentic thrills but should throw them into pleasurable fijits of suspense. After two murders with cannibalistic garnishings, it looks as if the natives are backsliding, but when Sleuth Lynch finds three dead flies under a dead man's face, he naturally dismisses that possibility. Altogether five victims bite the dust, a giant clam bites the hero, before Author Vandercook lifts the last shell, displays the elusive pea.

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