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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last month's 27, four stood out as best bets...
Crop. Of this month's crop, two turned out to be tedious by detective-story standards. In Who Killed Oliver Cromwell...
...this month showed few that were definitely bad, it also had few that addicts could call first-rate. In the category of acceptable they put items like Laurence Dwight Smith's Death Is Thy Neighbor, Nard Jones's The Case of the Hanging Lady, George Bagby's Murder on the Nose, G. D. H. & Margaret Cole's The Missing Aunt, Whitman Chambers' Dog Eat Dog, Carolyn Wells's The Missing Link, William Gore's The Mystery of the Painted Nude, Ellery Queen's The Devil...
Death on the Nile-Agatha Christie-Dodd, Mead ($2). The murder of an English heiress in Egypt, followed by two more baffling killings, solved by Agatha Christie's famed Hercule Poirot in a story that is readable, implausible, but contains the most genuinely surprising solution of the month...
Such, in R. F. D., are some of the unusual details of farming as practiced by Farmer Smart, a Harvard graduate, onetime editor, schoolteacher, Paris expatriate, and author of two novels, who three years ago inherited Oak Hill and several thousand dollars in cash. A Book-of-the-Month Club selection and a likely candidate for the best-seller list, R. F. D. is also one of the most enthusiastic documentations yet to appear on that rare phenomenon, an intellectual who intends to farm his "farm...