Recent Books

Non-Fiction

THREE WAYS HOME -- Sheila Kaye-Smith--Harper ($2.50). Contented account of how the author succeeded in her early ambition to become a Roman Catholic, a Sussex cottager, a prolific novelist.

Mysteries of the Month

CRIMEFILE NUMBER 3: FILE ON FENTON AND FARR -- Q. Patrick -- Morrow ($2.25). Two deaths, both by gunfire in a New Jersey boys' school; five suspects, most of them on the school staff; clues including photographs, lipstick, telegrams, bound in the volume, as in other Crime-files. Good.

THE ACE OF KNAVES--Leslie Charteris --Crime Club ($2). A murder, forged bonds, a clash with big British smugglers, a fight with a blackmailer who threatens to carve the faces of movie stars, provide the complications of three novelettes about that brash and amusing Robin Hood called the Saint. Exciting.

MURDER UP MY SLEEVE--Erie Stanley Gardner--Morrow ($2). One death, by a dart from a Chinese sleeve gun, with suspects that include members of San Francisco's social set, Chinatown characters, and the detective himself (who is Terry Clane, successor to Author Gardner's famed Perry Mason). First rate.

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