Murder in November

THE GREAT MISTAKE--Mary Roberts Rinehart--Farrar & Rinehart ($2). Maud Wainwright, money-dripping widow of the Cloisters, is bedeviled by a neighborhood crowd of dastardly ex-husbands and bitchy ex-wives. Plenty of murder.

JOURNEY INTO FEAR--Eric Ambler --Knopf ($2). Wartime attempt of a Britisher, traveling in naval ordnance, to get home from Turkey. His gradual realization that he must be murdered, Turkish gestures of protection, changing plans, sudden death on his ship--this is ordinary intrigue material made into a knockout story.

THE CASE OF THE SILENT PARTNER --Eric Stanley Gardner--Morrow ($2). Perry Mason, insatiable lawyer-sleuth, is very nearly floored by a floozy on the West Coast. One jump ahead of Lieutenant Tragg, Mason solves a canyon slaying and whitewashes his lady client, who was being most foully done out of her common stock.

THE SECOND MYSTERY BOOK--Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). Works by those well-known slicks: Anthony Abbott (Thatcher Colt), Leslie Ford (Colonel Primrose), David Frome (Mr. Pinkerton), Mary Roberts Rinehart, Rex Stout (Tecumseh Fox), Philip Wylie. Well worth the extra 50-c-.

THE BUCHAREST BALLERINA MURDERS -- Van Wyck Mason -- Stokes ($2). Supersuave treatment of spying in today's Balkans. Major Hugh North, U. S. Intelligence, gets stuck in a Rumanian villa where murder is liberally done for a formula. North finally finds it embroidered on the undies of Contesse di Bruno, who all the time was pert little Connie Fletcher from Kansas.

LAST TRAIN OUT--E. Phillips Oppenheim--Little, Brown ($2). Topical souffle in which the crackle of shirt fronts is indistinguishable from the machine-gun fire in Vienna's streets. Usual cast of beautiful baroness, British Intelligence officer, sexy American redhead, all milling around because Nazi invaders want the person and art collection of a rich Jew.

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