MY UNCONSIDERED JUDGMENTNoel F. BuschHoughton, Mifflin ($2).
WHAT MANNER OF MAN?Noel F. BuschHarpers ($2).
Noel F. (for Fairchild) Busch, 38, is a character who would seem wholly plausible to any reader of detective stories. New York City-born and Princeton-bred, he is tall, lean, dark, fastidious, athletic and adventurous, conceals a lively curiosity beneath an air of skeptical and somewhat bored amusement, and is gifted with a sardonic manner which is most effective when directed at waiters who neglect to have his food prepared without butter or his bacon fried to a sufficient...