Murders in July

THE GLASS TRIANGLE--George Harmon Coxe--Knopf ($2). Joan English, playing in stock and hell-bent for Broadway, goes to a movie preview with Kent Murdock, nosy news photographer, is presently caught with the corpse of a nasty director. Murdock unties the hangman's knot that threatens her.

THE MURDER AT THE MUNITIONS WORKS --G. D. H & Margaret Cole--Mocmillan ($2). A lady-killing explosion, falling crates, runaway lorries bent on mayhem. The Coles (economists in their spare time) bring a lot of labor-wrangling into this one, and it's not hard to smell a small moral--somewhat bedimmed and bedecked by sex.

THE SECRET WEAPON--Francis Seed-Ing--Harper ($2). Spy stuff: a Briton in Germany, with elaborately detailed descriptions of the horrors of Nazi-run Jewish concentration camps. The first of its kind--but doubtless not the last.

OLD LOVER'S GHOST--Leslie Ford--Scribner ($2). Cecily Chapman, pack-tripping through the Yellowstone with a party including her grandmother and a heel named George, encounters her old love. Murder follows. Old Colonel Prim rose appears like magic with his familiar Sergeant Buck. They pin it all on another heel.

THE CORPSE WITH KNEE ACTION --B. J. Maylon--Phoenix Press ($2). Rough, tough ructions in San Francisco, featuring Reporter Bill King, porcelain-collecting Ching, the lovely Stella Holmes.

THE D. A. GOES TO TRIAL--Erie Stanley Gardner--Morrow ($2). No Perry Mason in this one. Square-shooting District Attorney Selby looks into embezzlement and a dead hobo in Madison County, Calif. Although a lady lawyer who loves him tries to show him up, and a girl reporter ditto tries to help, sterling old Doug Selby goes it alone with the sheriff, winds up unattached.

I DON'T LIKE CATS--Lindsay Anson--Crime Club ($2). A crinkum-crankum creeper about Major Thirkell, hydroponist (soilless farmer), and his supposed persecution of cat-loving Ginger, his daughter-in-law. Life is tough for Ginger; she's nearly murdered daily. Two killings, solved by an ex-Yarder and a newshawk whose car is named Mrs. Frequently.

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