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The Queen's Necklace, by Frances Mossiker. One of the 18th century's best puzzles—the still not fully explained theft of a 2,800-carat diamond necklace made for Marie Antoinette.
The Ice in the Bedroom, by P. G.
Wodehouse. The master's latest no-effort-at-all is as joyously addled as all the others.
Sermons and Soda-Water, by John O'Hara. In three related novellas, the author abandons his recent attempts to rewrite Remembrance of Things Past in American, and returns to his early task of concise, skilled social observation.
Raditzer, by Peter Matthiessen. Writing with an incisiveness that recalls Conrad, Novelist Matthiessen tells a harsh tale of parasite and host—the one a whining Navy goldbricker, the other a strong and decent man.
Best Sellers
FICTION 1. Hawaii, Michener (3)*
2. The Last of the Just, Schwarz-Bart (2)
3. Advise and Consent, Drury (1)
4. To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee (5)
5. Sermons and Soda-Water, O'Hara (4)
6. The Dean's Watch, Goudge (8)
7. The Lovely Ambition, Chase (7)
8. Decision at Delphi, Maclnnes (6)
9. Pomp and Circumstance, Coward (9)
10. Shadows on the Grass, Dinesen (10)
NONFICTION
1. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Shirer (1)
2. Who Killed Society? Amory (2)
3. The Snake Has All the Lines, Kerr (3)
4. The Waste Makers, Packard (4)
5. The White Nile, Moorehead (6)
6. The American Heritage Picture History of the Civil War (5)
7. Born Free, Adamson (10)
8. Japanese Inn, Statler
9. Baruch: The Public Years
10. Profiles in Courage, Kennedy (9)
* All times E.S.T.
* Position on last week's list.