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...offspring are full of charades, false whiskers and profound contempt for rich Uncle Gabriel.Touched for another loan, Uncle G. comes to call, bringing his wife, regarded by the Lampreys as mad if not actually a witch. Uncle G. expires with a silver-plated meat skewer in his eye; Detective-Inspector Alleyn puts them all through the hoops. Delightful story...
...DEAD CAN TELL-Helen Rellly-Random House ($2). Plugging New York's Finest, this latest Inspector McKee story deals with a couple of murders in the Fast Set. There's evidence that a dead woman lives, that sex is not dead, that Medical Examiner Fernandez is dumb like a fox. Recommended...
BLACK PLUMES-Margery Allingham -Crime Club ($2). Intricate behavior of the Ivory family, plagued by murder, a Tibetan Enoch Arden, their own famed art collection and its curators. Bedridden Gabrielle, grand old Ivory dame, sends her imperious influence through walls and minds and even Inspector Bridie...
MAYHEM IN B-FiAT-Elliot Paul-Random House ($2). Moritz the miraculous Boxer (a dog) makes his debut with the familiar cast of Homer Evans, detective, dead-eye Miriam, Inspector Fremont and his dusky Hydrangea, Hjalmar Jansen the crockery smasher, the Singe, Godo the Whack, et al., roister-doistering from Paris to Rouen and back by water, land and haystack. Funniest murder story yet from veteran Mr. Paul, whose higher-browed books include The Life & Death of a Spanish Town...
MAIGRET ABROAD-Georges Sime-non-Harcourf, Brace ($2). In Holland, the imperturbable Inspector Maigret deals with a crime of passion: the popping off of philandering Popinga. Maigret makes his pick and hands the case to Detective Pijpekamp for the kill. Proceeding then to Belgium, Maigret solves a murder at the Gai-Moulin in Liege. Principal actors are Adele, a danseuse, and two ne'er-do-well youths, always broke...