THE GREAT MISTAKEMary Roberts RinehartFarrar & Rinehart ($2). Maud Wainwright, money-dripping widow of the Cloisters, is bedeviled by a neighborhood crowd of dastardly ex-husbands and bitchy ex-wives. Plenty of murder.
JOURNEY INTO FEAREric Ambler Knopf ($2). Wartime attempt of a Britisher, traveling in naval ordnance, to get home from Turkey. His gradual realization that he must be murdered, Turkish gestures of protection, changing plans, sudden death on his shipthis is ordinary intrigue material made into a knockout story.
THE CASE OF THE SILENT PARTNER Eric Stanley GardnerMorrow ($2). Perry Mason, insatiable lawyer-sleuth, is...