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Anticlimax. In Raleigh, N.C., Slayer John S. Baldwin, awaiting execution, learned the Governor had commuted his sentence, promptly sent a message of protest, threatened to sue him for "interfering with the court's action...
...later himself found slain in the locked and weaponless room of a Mamaroneck mansion. Merlini, an ex-magician with a vast fund of illusionistic lore and rare deductive skill, enters the case to help a much-involved reporter friend and remains to produce a subtle and unsuspected slayer. Superabundant-and engrossing- data about spirits, fakirs and magic slightly retard the movement of an otherwise excellent story...
...MIDGET MURDERS-Craig Rice -Simon & Schuster ($2). A lively and unorthodox Chicago trio, Lawyer Malone and a young-couple-about-town, finally snare the slayer of a diabolically minded dwarf who badly needed killing. Genially ribald dialogue and a cleverly concocted plot...
...CALLING-Helen McCloy- Morrow ($2). Unidentified telephone messages tell the chorus girl fiancée of a well-born young Marylander to stay away from the family mansion or else. A murder follows and Basil Willing delves into abnormal psychology to bring up the slayer. Scientifically sound, deductively excellent...
...United States are fighting side by side with Stalin, the greatest murderer of men the world has ever known . . . the man who murdered the old Bolsheviki, the slayer of millions of his own people, the man who in sheer savagery grinned while 3,000,000 people were dying in the Ukraine for lack of food which he had taken from their mouths...