Murder in January

> BLIND MAN'S BUFF--Baynard Kendrick--Little, Brown ($2). A series of fatal falls that follow the "suicide" leap of a blind New York banker leads sightless Detective Duncan Maclain into the most perilous case of his career. A unique murder method, a well hidden criminal and intelligent writing give the tale stellar honors.

> DON'T CATCH ME--Richard Powell--Simon & Schuster ($2). Two sets of villains, one Hitlerite, the other indigenous, join forces in this effervescent, farcical tale to strip a Philadelphia museum of its furniture collection. A young Main Line antique dealer and his bride spoil the robbery but not the fun.

> THE CASE OF THE SMOKING CHIMNEY--Erle Stanley Gardner--Morrow ($2). Author Gardner here makes his annual switch from his lawyer sleuth Perry Mason to his equally nimble-minded California oldster "Cramps" Wiggins, who helps the law understand an apparent suicide in a squalid shack.

> SHE DIED A LADY--Carter Dickson--Morrow ($2). The death pact of an erring English wife and her actor lover presents choleric Sir Henry Merrivale with an enigma that he solves (from a motor wheel chair) with his notably vociferous logic.

This file is automatically generated by a robot program, so reader's discretion is required.