Monday, Jul. 07, 1941
Murder in June
AFTERMATH OF MURDER--Mo/-/ Fiff--Crime Club ($2). For 50 years the aged sisters de Boulter have laid a weekly wreath on two graves, but not on a third.
Superintendent Mallett and Dr. Fitzbrown, idly piecing this ancient violence together at the vicarage, come upon an extraordinary solution. Beautifully done tragedy without fireworks.
THE CASE OF THE CONSTANT SUICIDES --John Dickson Carr--Harper ($2). Murder and suicide in Scotland over money difficulties. Weapons: dry ice and "The Doom of the Campbells," a copiously flowing whiskey. Wheezy, stumping Dr. Fell effects justice, not without some villainy of his own. Good as they come.
JUSTICE BE DAMNED--A. R. Hilliard --Farrar & Rinehart ($2). Mr. Peabody is standing trial for shooting his wife's lover, whose presumptive bones have just been fished out of the river. Actually, a clever schemer is using Judge Manfred's court and Defense Attorney Carver to murder Mr. Peabody. Theatrical, but the Judge does some fine, lofty detecting.
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