Word: novels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Author. Three days before Christmas 1935, Mrs. Lester Jacobs, who writes under her maiden name, received word that she had won $10,000 with her first novel (TIME, Jan. 6). Wife of a toll-bridge keeper in Bay St. Louis, Miss., mother of six children, author of many rejected short stories, Mrs. Jacobs learned of her good fortune on her 44th birthday and on her 22nd wedding anniversary. Born in Old Town, Me., she had previously written for local newspapers. After graduation from the University of Maine, she married a classmate and went South with him to make their home...
...Novel at least in the manner of its telling, File on Bolitho Blane gets under way slowly as Kettering's reports first establish that almost everybody on board the yacht had some good reason for wanting Blane killed. The cast of characters includes two rival financiers, a count, a bishop, a British philanthropist, a Japanese promoter, a secretary, two young ladies, and the evidence apparently involves them all impartially. The solution of the mystery-by a detective on shore from the same evidence that is made available to the reader-is sealed in the back of each volume...
...BELLS OF BASEL-Louis Aragon- Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). Uneven but interesting novel by a famed French poet who was once a leader in the Dada and surrealist movements. Laid in pre-War France, it deals with the careers of a fashionable courtesan, a rebellious daughter of a Russian émigré, a revolutionist, includes some vivid scenes of social corruption, some dim ones of social conflict...
...AFRICAN WITCH-Joyce Gary- Morrow ($2.50). Long, semirealistic novel laid in British West Africa, revolving around the defeat of a handsome, English-educated native chieftain in his attempts to improve the lot of his people. Witchcraft, riots of native women, the governing methods of the British, a decapitation, the inept assistance of a sentimental English lady, contribute to his failure...
...WALK AFTER JOHN KEATS-Nelson S. Bushnel-Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). Novel piece of literary sleuthing in which the author retraces every mile of the jointly-documented, 650-mile walking tour taken by John Keats and a friend in the summer of 1818. The path led Author Bushnel (who was weighed down with a load of maps, books and Keats's diary) over the hills of North England and Scotland and over trails overgrown with shipyards and factory districts that were not there when Keats made...