THE EMPEROR'S SNUFF BOXJohn Dickson CarrHarper ($2). How a harassed and suggestible young Englishwoman was saved from almost certain conviction as the slayer of her fiance's father by the supershrewd deductions of Dr. Kinross, specialist in criminal psychology. A brilliant exercise in detecting, a chilling adventure in careful, cold-blooded villainy, a sterling bit of craftsmanship even though one important bit of evidence is held back.
THE FOURTEENTH TRUMPJudson P. Philips Dodd. Mead ($2). The tough and tricky tale of a Manhattan hotel-room murder that puts a pretty girl in the shadow of...