Books: Posthumous Jealousy

CHRISTINA — Claude Houghton — Doubleday, Doran ($2.50).

Peter Brand was a successful London businessman who had two passions and no other interests: his work and his wife Christina. When his wife died Brand nearly went out of his head with helpless grief. One day he found a packet of her letters in a locked drawer. They were not addressed to anybody, but they were love-letters. He also found an address book. Because he was frightfully in love with his wife and because he knew she had had "artistic" friends, Brand became...

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