Books: Murder in May, Jun. 9, 1941

A TOAST To TOMORROW—Manning Coles—Crime Club ($2). The deputy chief of the German Police in 1933 recovers from amnesia to remember he is actually Hambledon of British Intelligence in World War I. Thereafter "Klaus Lehmann" spies to end all spying, raises hell with German war plans. Timely, well done and not very corny.

MURDER WELL DONE—lone Sandberg Shriber—Farrar & Rinehart ($2).

Tyrannical old lady Stanford, smothered in bed on her Lake Michigan island, leaves $20,000,000 worth of murder and grief to her collected mismarried heirs. Intricately well-plotted.

THE TWENTY-ONE CLUES—J. J. Connington—Little, Brown ($2)....

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