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...Breaks Rinehart Record...
JAMES JOYCE-Herbert Gorman-Farrar & Rinehart...
...CRADLE BUILDER-Walter Schoenstedt-Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). The man in this young German emigre's novel is a young German emigre, his wife, a Vermont girl, the-setting. Manhattan's Yorkville (German district) and an upstate farm. Central theme is the couple's slow, half-reluctant maturing through marriage and child-begetting. Complications are local Bund-boys, the young man's abortive infidelities, his gradual adjustment to a new country. Stringent in style, sensitive in its perceptions it is the work of a somewhat oldfashioned, gently talented German romantic poet, nicely translated...
OVER MY DEAD BODY-Rex Stout-Farrar & Rinehart ($2). Nero Wolfe, who once fought in the Montenegrin Army, has a bit of a time with Balkan intrigue and a couple of quaintly accented lovelies named Lovchen and Tormic. One of them is probably his daughter; either might have murdered one of the fencers at a Manhattan salle d'armes. Archie Goodwin does all the work hvala Bogu (thank...
HAMLET HAD AN UNCLE-Branch Cabell-Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). Author Cabell's Hamlet is the purported original of Shakespeare's, as found in assorted Viking sagas. Like the Melancholy Dane, the Viking of Jutland poses as insane (only more so), murders his stepfather. But the Viking Hamlet was big, blond and extrovert. He did not see his father's ghost. He killed not only his stepfather, but all his stepfather's courtiers. He married a guileless English princess, abandoned her for a bloodthirsty, hawknosed hank of hair, thereby starting a sequence of murders which ends only...