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TINSLEY'S BONES - Percival Wilde -Random House ($2). The incineration of an eremitical pulpwriter in his rural Connecticut retreat causes the convocation of an amazing coroner's jury. The testimony presented, the diary of one juror with an unfortunate flair for amateur detection, and the sly sleuthing of Coroner Slocum make up the year's most intelligently hilarious mystery yarn...
...readers who like their murder in large doses: The Complete Dashiell Hammett (Knopf; $2.50), five full-length novels beginning with The Thin Man, proving pretty conclusively that the worst of Hammett is several parasangs ahead of his closest runners-up in the tough school; Three Famous Spy Novels (Random; $1.98), showing how dated E. P. Oppenheim's The Great Impersonation seems in the company of Eric Ambler's streamlined Journey into Fear and the sinister subtleties of Graham Greene's The Confidential Agent...
...announcement that Professor Hillyer has written a novel will probably be pleasing to those who have enjoyed his poetry in the past. The novel, entitled "My Heart for History" will be published next fall by Random House...
ONLY THE STARS ARE NEUTRAL-Quentin Reynolds-Random House...
...last week there was new evidence that the Nelson plan deserved much credit. The trade paper Mill & Factory released a "survey with no holds barred" of how it had worked in a random sample of 88 out of the first 300 plants to set up production-drive committees. Despite management's early fears (and the survey was built up exclusively from management reports), 91% of those with concrete opinions reported that labor had not used the drive to encroach on management; 78% said labor had used them "in a sincere effort to increase production"; 62% said they had received...