The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-24

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IINEIN NylA Z.
BY WALTER D. HICKMAN.

the way for an interesting murdel
mystery in The Westminster Mys.
terry" published by The Centllry
Company and selling at 50.
A man with a mutilated thumb
Ivan Lansberg, very wealthy, anc
friend Of lauren, the actress
the Countess Of Warnham and Lady
Avice Garth and even Loureen are
suspected.
OF course this is Scotland Yard
story and Inspector Reynolds is
very much on the Job, but he hits
a wall of silence on the part oil
the chief witness.
There is good character drawing
as the chief people seem to take or
flesh and blood attributes which is
rare in the mine run detective OF
mystery novel.
Elaine Hamilton is the author Of
The Westminster Mystery" If you
ere interested in beautiful stage
stars who are unfortunate enough
to have a man murdered in her
apartment when she is mot" at
home, you will have a grand time
with this one.
NTANY are interested in best
I've best sellers and for that rea-
son Brentano's reports each week
on ths six best sellers in their New
York stores. The latest report shows
the best sellers in fiction as "The
Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck, a
powerful novel Of the soil with a
Chinese setting, published by John
Day; Ambrose Holt and Family,
by Susan Glaspell, q tragi-comedy
of a prodigal father and a disaf-
fected wife, published by Stokes,
and Men dislike Women" by Mi
chael Arlen, published by Double
day Doran. FL.
TWO other listed best sellers in
4 fiction are "Aphrodite in Aulis,
by Georga Moore, tale of Greece
in the Golden Age, published by
Brentano, and Flamenco" by Lady
Eleanor Smith, a story Of a gypsy
love and dark passions, published by
Bobbs-Merrill Of indianapolis.
The BobbS-M Merrill people had
great faith in this novel and pre-
dicted its immediate success weeks
before it was published.
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DEOPLE are going in for the bet
, ter things as shown in Bren-
tano's report on the best sellers in
non-flction. Readers are tremen-
dously interested in Africa, as shown
by the popularity Of Jungle Ways, +"
by w. B. SeabrooS, the author Of
"The Magic Island" Published by
Farcourt Brace. One would expect
TO see Bernard Shaw's 1.-THE Apple
Cart" in the list the second it was
published by Brentano's. This is a
Shavian satire on politics and
pseudo-t1emocracy. This is the play
that Jane Wheatley appeared in for
the Theater Guild before coming
to Indianapolis with the Arthur
Casey Players.
ONCE the Chicago Progress Ex-
- hibition in 1888 will present a
new version of the life of Christ as
one of the educational features,
prominent writer's are now turning
their attention to books on that sub
1sct. Edmond Fleg, author OF ''The
Life of Moses" and "The Boy
Prophet" is now at work on Life OF
Jesus" according to Macrae Of E.
p. Dutton e Co. NIacrae saw Fleg
in Paris and brought back to Amer
lea his new play, "The Pope and
the Jew" which Dutton will publish.
~THE Pure in Heart" by Franz
4 Werfel, which is the May
choice Of the Book League Of Amer
lea, is, at the request of the author,
not going to receive advance pub
lefty in the usual way. Werfel
wants his books to be judged solely
on their own merit and not to be
popularized by anything that might
be considered personal.
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ONE Of the most amazing books
~ Of the year is w. Olaf Staple
don's Last and First Man" (Jona-
than Cape & Harrison Smith, $3.50
which actually challenges COMPARE
son with Verne and Wells. 1t is
an imaginative forecast of human
history for two billion years, and,
although difficult reading. is an ex-
traordinary achievement.
Robert -Sencourt has done a brill
liant piece Of work in his gittering
biography, 1.-THE Life Of the En-
press Eugene" (Charles Scribners
Sons, So. It's magnificent book.
AS far as biographies go, there's
another fine one, "Mustapha Renal
of Turkey" by H. E. Workman Uit-
tie, Brown 81 Co., $3.50. It's a fine
chronicle Of the Turkish uprising.
Edna St. Vincent Millay's new
book of sonnets is on the market.
Fatal Interview" (Harper & Bro-
theirs, $3.50, is deep and beauti-
full book.
rTHERE are three fine new
i mysteries for the lovers OF
spooky stories. The best is "A Hair
Divides" by Claude Houghtor
doubleday, Doran & Co., So. II
is the best in months.
The second is THE Documents In
the Case" by Dorothy L. Savers
and Robert Eustace (Brewer &
Warren, Inc, So. 1t is an absorb
ing story.
The third IS Death On the Deep,
by H NJ. Stephenson doubleday
Doran & Co.. 50. 1t deals with