Monday, Mar. 27, 1933

Murders of the Month

CELEBRATED CASES OF CHARLIE CHAN --Earl Derr Biggers--Bobbs-Merrill ($2). The clever Chinese rides this omnibus through Cases One to Five.

FOG--Valentine Williams & Dorothy Rice Sims--Houghton Mifflin ($2). The great liner's captain uncovered more than one intrigue before he found out who killed the millionaire and the star suspect.

DEATH IN THE SENATE--"Diplomat"--Covici, Friede ($2). Sprightly Dennis Tyler again pierces the mask of official Washington, explains two catastrophes, prevents a third.

THE CASE OF THE VELVET CLAWS-- Erie Stanley Gardner--Morrow ($2). Cynical Lawyer Mason, faithful only to his clients, balances murder with blackmail, earns his fee.

THE BANK VAULT MYSTERY--Louis F. Booth--Dodd, Mead ($2). $180,000 in cash snatched under the nose of the bank manager--two murders later.

SERGEANT SIR PETER--Edgar Wallace-- Crime Club ($2). Money in the wrong cellar--and an automatic in the cut-out leaves of a book. An Edgar Wallace (believed to be his next-to-the-last) in the late author's characteristic vein.

THE OPERA MURDERS--Kirby Williams --Scribner ($2). Costumed for their greatest roles, three sopranos die. Anthropological deduction nabs the fiend.

THE TRAGEDY OF Z--Barnaby Ross-- Viking ($2). Thumm's girl and Drury Lane follow a grafter's death to prison walls; false justice averted by a narrow margin.

THE WESTWOOD MYSTERY--A. Fielding --Kinsey ($2). Suave Barrister Youdale doubts his acquitted clients, is smothered in bed. Scotland Yard's only clue : a smear of tangerine jam.

DEATH IS A STOWAWAY--Wesley Price --Godwin ($2). Pirate gold, a yardarm corpse, death and a New York "dick" aboard a treasure cruiser.

WHO SPOKE LAST?--John V. Turner-- Holt ($2). Compleat Angler Petrie fishes from each of six suspects his reason for murder.

MURDER AT CAMBRIDGE--Q. Patrick-- Farrar & Rinehart ($2). A blithe young American traces family lines, helps the constabulary catch a clever killer.

AFTER THE DEACON WAS MURDERED-- Cornelia Penfield--Putnam ($2).

DEATH AND THE PROFESSORS--Kathleen Sproul--Dutton ($2).

DEATH ON MY LEFT--Philip MacDonald--Crime Club ($2). Colonel Gethryn reads a boxer's history from a shoe brush.

THE CASE OF THE APRIL FOOLS--Christopher Bush--Morrow ($2). Ludovic Travers sees jest turned to murder. Blackmail leads to double death.

FROM MIDNIGHT TO MORNING--Maurice LeBlanc--Macaulay ($2). Adventurer Gerard don-juans his way through murder.

THE TUESDAY CLUB MURDERS--Agatha Christie--Dodd, Mead ($2). Thirteen mysteries, each solved by the bright-eyed little old lady.

TIGER STANDISH--Sydney Horler-- Crime Club ($2). Gentleman Footballer Standish grapples with a crooked three, is rescued by Secret Service.

THE MURDERER OF SLEEP--Milward Kennedy--Kinsey ($2). Triple death in the English village of Sleep.

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