Books: Death in January

THE NEW ADVENTURES OF ELLERY QUEEN —Ellery Queen—Stokes ($2). Eight snappy, compact short stories and one novelette, reprinted from magazines dating back to 1935. As good Queen as there is, and mighty handy at the bedside.

THE NORTHS MEET MURDER—Frances and Richard Lockridge—Sfokes ($2).

A lovely couple, the Norths, who plot mild whoopee in a vacant apartment upstairs in Greenwich Village, find a corpse in the bathtub, but have their party anyway. Mrs. North and Lieutenant Weigand together spot the guilty.

THE AFRICAN POISON MURDERS —Elspeth Huxley*— Harper ($2). This one has everything, including literary quality. Herr Munson, a nauseous Nazi farmer on the...

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