Books: Murder in June, Jul. 7, 1941

AFTERMATH OF MURDER—Mo/-/ Fiff—Crime Club ($2). For 50 years the aged sisters de Boulter have laid a weekly wreath on two graves, but not on a third.

Superintendent Mallett and Dr. Fitzbrown, idly piecing this ancient violence together at the vicarage, come upon an extraordinary solution. Beautifully done tragedy without fireworks.

THE CASE OF THE CONSTANT SUICIDES —John Dickson Carr—Harper ($2). Murder and suicide in Scotland over money difficulties. Weapons: dry ice and "The Doom of the Campbells," a copiously flowing whiskey. Wheezy, stumping Dr. Fell effects justice, not without some villainy of...

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