The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-08
BY WALTER d. HICKMAN

er. Berg is the staff artist of The
Indianapolis Times.
BY WALTER ID. HICKMAN
no you want to solve murder
II mystery? That is a murder
In novel. II you do you will have
grand time reading The Wedding
Chest Mystery" by A. Fielding and
published by H. c. Kinsey & Co. 1t
sells for ST.
Here is excellent hot weather
reading and it has more brains and
logic than the average murder mys-
terry. When the author finally solves
the strange murder of Boyd Arm
strong, Australian mining magnate,
living in London, the solution is
logical but will be darned if 1
could guess guilty individual.
Here is the mystery-Mrs. Phyllis
Armstrong is giving a grand after
noon tea in her priceless Chinese
suite in her great nome. Major
Hardy, great friend of the Arm
strongs, had presented Mrs. Arm
strong with an exquisite Chinese
wedding chest of marvellous design.
The major purchased 1t at the Lees,
Chinese merchants.
The chest was to contain 300
dwarf birch trees which were to be
distributed to the guests. They were
packed in the chest at the Lees.
But when the chest was opened
with grand ceremony at the tea it
contained the dead body of the head
of the house, Boyd Armstrong. He
had been fatally shot through the
head with a revolver.
The mystery centers around these
questions - How did Armstrong;
body get into the chest because it
was filled with trees when it left the
Chinese merchants.
Who murdered Armstrong-His
wife, his secretary, his brother-in-
law, Lady Grail, Mrs Armstrong;
social secretary, the murdered mans
cousin?
Why did a clock which was never
meant to strike the hour struck the
time every quarter hour in the Ii
brary of the dead man on the morn
lib VI JIle uluTQ6T!
What became of the murdered
mans fountain pen, his hat and
stick?
And say that is some mystery.
1t is corking good fun. Suggest that
you get copy and have lots of fun.
Vicki Baum's Secret Sentence"
has just been published by Double
day-Doran. She is the author as
you know Of Grand Hotel" which
has made her a fortune in book
form, on the stage and on the
screen. Her latest novel concerns
the story of man who killed the
prime minister of his country after
the World war. The author is
chiefly concerned with the terrible
haunting fear of the murderer that
he is going to be captured.
Liveright, Inc, have sent me their
new Fall Book catalogue It's cover
is one of the most attractive I have
received. The color is black and the
printing is done in gold. One of the
important announcements is that
More Merry Go Round" by the
authors of Washington Merry Co
Round, will be published soon.
Another fall publication that is
going to cause a sensation is THE
Strangest Friendship in History"
which concerns Woodrow Wilson
and Colonel House. 1t answers the
questions-Who was the woman who
was virtually President of the
United States? Did Wilson pledge
us to war before he was reelected?
What is the secret history of the
covenant? Who was the real author
of the Fourteen Points, the source
of the Federal Reserve act?
T.P. M'EvOY's Forthcoming novel,
- Are You Listening?" (Hough-
ton Mif1in Company, is written as
though the reader had tuned in and
heard the characters talking over
the radio in his own home. They
wake up to radio in the morning
and go to bed to it at night. All
day long they work and play. eat
and drink, quarrel and make love
with the radio pounding in their
ears.
Houghton Mifflin Company have
recently accepted for fall publica-
ton a book to be entitled Flying
Over South America" by Annie S.
Peck, well-known traveller and
mountain climber.
The modern American, who is be-
ing warned daily about the devaS-
tating tempo of our age, might find
vicariouS consolation in a story told
by Major G. S. Jarvis in his new
book, Yesterday and Today in
Sinai" For the Arab, he says, time
has no significance whatsoever.
came across a case once in which a
camel had been stolen, and the own
ers, suSpecting that it had been
taken to the Nile valley, walked
from Cairo TO Kena, a matter of
$50 miles, carefully inspecting every
camel on both sides of the river till,
eighteen months later, they discov-
cred it. The camel, incidentally, was
worth about IS.
Thames Williamson's new iuve-
nile. "On the Reindeer Trail" is the
story Of two boys who tend a rein
deer herd at its inland pasture with
the help of an Eskimo herder
throughout the Alaskan winter.
Published by Houghton Mifain Com
pany, it is a July selection Of the
Junior Literary Guild.