Books: Hallowe'en Horrors

HIDE IN THE DARK—Frances Noyes Hart—Doubleday, Doran ($2).

Jubilant, dashing Doug King was the life and death of a Hallowe'en party on an old Southern manor. He hid in the dark for fun and was murdered. Various of the 13 glamorous guests had ample motive for the crime. King had injured practically all of them, with his piratical lust for women and money. Authoress Hart, who wrote The Bellamy Trial, famed smash hit, has inlaid her mystery with a filigree of wit and romance, confined the action to one night, eliminated detectives. The...

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