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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...
...FOURTEENTH TRUMP-Judson P. Philips- Dodd. Mead ($2). The tough and tricky tale of a Manhattan hotel-room murder that puts a pretty girl in the shadow of the chair, leads Broadway Gambler Danny Coyle and his Harvard-graduate assistant through a dexterously crooked bridge club to a shoot-it-out finish. Credible tough-guy stuff, well packed with excitement...
...MOVING FINGER-Agatha Christie -Dodd, Mead ($2). Grey-haired Miss Marple, whose innocent face conceals a good deal of criminal knowledge and detecting skill, stops her knitting long enough to present the puzzled police with the solution of a poison-pen plot that leads to suicide and murder. A smoothly flowing and flawlessly constructed story...
Princeton, by raising this issue, has attracted attention from many quarters, and a final decision in the near future by the university's Board of Trustees will bear more weight than is probably desired. And for President Dodd to say at this time, despite the fact that he recently signed a resolution against post-war race prejudice, that he has never made any comment on campaigns sponsored by the Princetonian indicates a general refusal in the university to appreciate the significance of the issue...
...SNAKE IN THE GRASS- James Howard Wellard-Dodd, Mead ($2). The violent death of a gentleman, traveling on an alias during an extramarital holiday in a fashionable Southern hotel, greatly excites an inquisitive sociologist with a detecting bee and a great number of odd "contacts" in quite unscholarly circles. A profusion of red herrings delays the action slightly, but the learned sleuth's highly individual methods offset minor defects...