The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-11
BY WALTER ID. HICKMAN.

RH AANA pCOIllC are WIlIlIlg REVIEWS
1V1 for this department since it
was announced that the book re-
view published on Friday in this
department would give the winner
a new book.
Write your reviews of any book,
fiction, juvenile or non-f1ction.
Keep your review around 200, even
$50 words is good length for a
thumbnail review.
The winning review this week is
written by Kathryn Mason, 50
North Fifteenth avenue, Beech
Grove, Ind.
She will receive a brand new
mystery novel, about 2 A. M" by
Charles Francis Cole, published by
the Cosmopolitan Book Corpora
ton. 1t sells for So.
Send your reviews to The Literary
Editor of The Indianapolis Times.
This is a fine way to increase your
library as we'll as your reading ex-
perience.
THE winning review of Kathryn
l. Mason is on Storm Drift" by
Edthel M. Dell and is as follows:
Storm Drift is fiction, yet a
very highly dramatized piece of
work. The author expresses her
characters as storm drift on the
sea of life. The heroine is one of
the women who is morally weak,
yet you sympathize with her, be-
cause the sea of life for her is so
cruel.
The hero is a common character
loving the woman through pity, but
fate throws the woman on his raft,
which causes both of them to be-
come a storm drift. At the end,
they reach a safe harbor, weary, but
safe.
The author does her greatest
work in the creation of the charac-
ter Harvey, this character is all
artist, and when he paints a picture,
he paints the soul.
He is what we call a super human
character and genius. Just to know
the character of Harvey is worth
the time of reading.
n
rich broker is murdered during
the game season on the porch of
his lodge in north camp. That
happens in About 2 A. M" the
first mystery novel by Charles
Francis Coe, author of THE Other
Half Published by Cosmopolitan.
You meet new type of a detec-
tive or rather a secret service man
who finds the murderer but never
brings hersor him to justice. There
be reasons not. No, the arm of the
law didn't do the numbering.
Lemuel Tobias BedkinS, the de-
tective, generally starts every sem
tence with such expressions of by
Jasper" Gee Wilkins" and Land
Sakes Alive" Quaint.
This one has odd construction
and much detail but it will hold
your interest to the end. 1 liked it
because it is different.
Children do not have to worry
because the authors have not for
gotten them. Bertha L. Gunter-
man, editor for Longmans Green
and Co., announces in Books for
Boys and Girls" that they have
listed nineteen new titles for young
readers. They lay Importance on
"Waterless Mountain" by Laura
Adams Armer.
Want to read some new mystery
novels2 Bruce Cation or NEA sug-
gests these:
THE Cape Cod Mystery" by
Phoebe Atwood Taylor (Bobbs-
Merrill, so. A novelist is sand
bagged into the hereafter in
Cape Cod cottage. Almost every
one is suspected, and a canny ma
tive does the sleuthing that nails
the culprit A better han-average
detective yarn, competently told.
Murder in the Willett Family"
by Rufus King Crime Club. So.
Somebody is potting the WilletS, one
by one, and Inspector Valcour can't
make sense out of it until it's al
most too late You might be able
to guess who did it, but it's good