THIS DEATH WAS MURDERMarch EvermayMacmillan ($2). Widow Haskell had three daughters, two sons, money. Then she married a gentle, frugal architect-artist, Erich Humphrey. After her death, Erich was murdered. An absorbing play of brother-sister-mother motives (not to mention lawyer and caretaker problems).
SAD CYPRESS Agatha Christie Dodd, Mead ($2). Hercule Poirot bends his egg-shaped head to freeing Elinor Carlisle, accused of murdering the lodge-keeper's fetching daughter with a fishpaste sandwich. Good smooth Poirot.
THE HEADLESS LADYClayton RawsonPutnam ($2). Merlini, magician, can't let circuses or murders alone. Visiting the Hannum...