Word: murderings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Doubleday, Doran have accepted for spring publication the manuscript of "the most horrible psychological murder story the editors collectively or individually have ever read." Its beguilingly innocent title is "Harriet," and its author is a pleasant young English-woman, Elizabeth Jenkins...
RICHARDSON'S SECOND CASE-Sir Basil Thomson-Crime Club ($2). Murder of a servant and theft of coin bring to the Yard-novice Richardson a new chance. Much work, many physically gathered facts and good police integration bring co-relation of another case to bear and close the mystery. The case contains an extraneous parrot, a trustful solicitor and a suave arch-crook...
...MURDER IN THE CALAIS COACH-Agatha Christie-Dodd, Mead ($2). Basing the tale on America's great kidnapping, the author brings the archcriminal to his doom on a snowbound Jugoslavian express. Coincidentally the rotund, penetrating Poirot is abroad. Clues abound. Alibis are frequent and unassailable but nothing confounds the great Hercule who, after propounding alternative solutions to his jury of two, retires modestly...
...HOSPITAL MURDERS-Means Davis -Smith & Haas ($2). The patient in Bed 11, Ward B, Medicine Clinic, died without sufficient reason. The next one in that bed died likewise, and the next. "The sins of the father" involve a young chief of staff in murder...
...MURDER FOR BREAKFAST-Peter Hunt -Vanguard ($2). Miller happens to be Chief of Police in a small Connecticut town but speedily gets out of his depth when murder is dinned into his ears. In the baffling hospital-residence of a taciturn, suspicious doctor his common sense is his only piece of equipment. But he uses it effectively even when he is on the point of being the third victim...