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Sirs: All kudos to Eurich and Wilson for the Current Affairs Test in the magazine for June 29. I hied myself straightway to this town's first TIME-booster, Author August W. Derleth, candidly hoping to catch him with little better than a college average. Despite the fact that he is revising a major novel on option to Scribner's Sons, putting together an anthology of poems for another New York publisher, and arranging a book of his own poetry besides reading for review and otherwise an average of 30 books and 40 magazines a month, Author Derleth...
...DIGWEED AND MR. LUMB-Eden Phillpotts-Macmillan ($2). The disappearance of one of them brings two old misogynists to the eyes of England's rural constabulary. The garrulity of the survivor helps police solve a murder carefully planned for three years. MURDER STALKS THE WAKELY FAMILY -August W. Derleth-Loring & Mussey ($2). The small town's mean man was stabbed just before "Judge" Peck arrived. His son, his sister, his half-brother change from suspects to victims. The "Judge's" delving into the past unearths both the cause and manner of the killing. EPILOGUE-Bruce Graeme-Lippincott...