THE AFFAIR AT THE BOAT LANDING— A. B. Cunningham—Dutton ($2). The mother wit of Kentucky Sheriff Jess Roden here solves the killing of a farmer and a beauteous halfwit. The story is noteworthy for color and character, as well as for logical detection.
BURY ME NOT— William Francis— Morrow ($2). This rowdily amusing exercise in the prevention of body snatching, featuring a corpse that found its coffin too confining, will please readers of hardy sensibilities.
SIREN IN THE NIGHT—Leslie Ford— Scribner ($2). Colonel Primrose, Sergeant Buck and the fluttery Mrs. Grace Latham are here concerned with a cyaniding job in San Francisco—a well-groomed, romantic, chilling tale in the best Ford style.
NIGHT OVER THE WOOD—Hugh Addis — Dodd, Mead ($2). On a California rancho well stocked with borderline cases, one corpse turns up in a well, another is headless in a sinister wood lot. Crime and kidding are capitally mixed.
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