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...WOMAN IN THE CASE, by Edgar Lustgarten (218 pp.; Scribner; $3), is a retelling-and also a brilliant explanation -of four famed British murder trials in which women figured prominently. A well-written account of a true crime has twice the chilling impact of fiction. Author Lustgarten, equipped with a sharp, legally trained mind and a novelist's eye and heart, is probably just the man to succeed William Roughhead and Edmund Pearson as top writer in the true-crime field...
...like a snap lock when British reporters tried to interview him six years ago on his reasons for quitting the Roman Catholic Church and rejoining the Church of England. This week the lock opened smoothly with U.S. publication of Anglican Witcutt's Return to Reality (Macmillan; $1.65)-a well-written attack upon Roman Catholic doctrine...
...consecrated bug watchers as France's late great Entomologist Jean Henri Fabre get in on these magnificent shoots, British Science Writer John Crompton, author of the excellent Life of the Spider (TIME, July 3, 1950), has put all the bug watchers' best stories in this urbane and well-written book...
...older children there are well-written stories about modern-minded youngsters in Acts of the Apostles settings. "Mark, why do you always make the little sign of the cross when you go through a door?" asked Jerry, and Mark replied conspiratorially: "That's one of the secret ways you can tell a Christian in a crowd." There is also a lucid "resource book" for junior-high-school students giving alphabetically arranged definitions of Christian terms, e.g., "The word apostle means one who is sent. Every patrol leader in the Boy Scouts is a kind of apostle...
...biggest bestseller in postwar Germany is a well-written but viciously anti-American autobiography of a convicted murderer. The book: Fragebogen (The Questionnaire). The author: Ernst von Salomon, veteran of the roughneck Free Corps, which terrorized Germany after World War I and provided a recruitment pool for the Nazi SA and SS. The book has sold more than 250,000 copies in West Germany (the U.S. equivalent of about 750,000 copies). Published in Britain last April, it shocked reviewers of all political shades. American readers will also be shocked-and probably fascinated...