Murders of the Month

MURDERS AT SCANDAL HOUSE-- Peter Hunt -- Appleton-Century ($2). There were too many members of the ill-assorted family, when they gathered to lock a skeleton more firmly in a closet; they began to die, one by one. The 'legger-undertaker had five corpses to lay out before an easy-going gentleman-policeman really laid the ghost.

DEAD MRS. STRATTON--Anthony Berkeley--Crime Club ($2). Sleuth Sheringham, detecting a murder, finds himself the favorite suspect, has a narrow squeak, remains puzzled.

DEATH BEHIND THE DOOR -- Victor MacClure--Houghton Mifflin ($2). Scotland Yard's ace detective, on a busman's holiday, scents murder in accidental death. A motive of art-appreciation is proven posthumously, in a solution by confession.

THE MAD HATTER MYSTERY -- John Dickson Carr--Harper ($2). London's jolly hat stealer makes a grave error, brings scandal and murder to a proud family. Reluctantly, rotund Dr. Fell finds the guilty member.

THE MAN OF DANGEROUS SECRETS-- Maxwell March--Crime Club ($2). All the men who loved a certain girl died, so Scotland Yard's undercover man sacrificed celibacy to catch England's master blackmailer.

MURDER IN BERMUDA -- Willoughby Sharp--Kendall ($2). In crimeless Bermuda, a comely girl is stabbed. The astonished police trace the actions of doubtful tourists and a dead man; catch a murderer and a kidnapper.

THE CASE OF MARIE CORWIN--Gregory Dean--Covici, Friede ($2). A New York blackmail racket leads to an unsolved death, until a newly appointed commissioner makes an epilog solution.

THE PRIME MINISTER'S PENCIL--Cecil Waye--Kinsey ($2). The mysterious death of England's Prime Minister makes suspects of a banker, a doctor and the new Prime Minister. Meticulous Christopher Perrin learns about protons, catches all but the principal criminal.

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