The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-12
BY WALTER d. HICKMAN

IiShed by Harper ana broCnerS'
BY WALTER ID. HICKMAN
TTERE and there we find mys-
Il terry novel that has brains as
we'll as a plot in which real men
and women function.
Such a novel is Five Fatal
Words" by Edwin Balmer and
Philip Wylie and published by Ray
Long and Richard r. Smith. 1t
sells for 81.
When you open this novel at the
first page, nothing has happened OF
any vast Importance. A great mil
lionaire has died, leaving an &C.
centric will.
This man, Silas Cornwall, left
millions and millions to his six
children. Each was to have one
sixth of the vast fortune as long
as he or she lived and upon the
death of any heir the others were
to absorb their share of that part
And the last heir living would
come into a fortune of many mil
lions to handle as he or she saw fit.
So the six heirs began merry
battle to live the longest and this
developed many queer traits in the
heirs.
The first heir to pass away wa:
David Cornwall and that after forty
years following the death of his
millionaire father.
A few years before Daniel died hi
received a note which when ar
ranged in a certain way spelled the
word death"
The names of the heirs were
Daniel, Everitt, Alice, Theodore anc
Hannah. The other was the eccen-
trio Lydia. Take the first letter OF
each name and it would spell
Death"
And the heirs to that vast for
tune all died" in that order. And
Lydia lived. A short time before
each one died a message containing
the word Death" was delivered tC
the victim.
Among all the heirs of the for
tune in Five Fatal Words" I wa!
most interested in Hannah whC
lived on a 500-acre estate. Hel
every movement was guarded. Sht
changed her servants once a year
paid them handsomely and livet
in seclusion. The chauffeur was the
only one who could leave the estate
But death entered one of TIT
bath rooms and electrocuted Ever
lit in the great home of Hannah.
Then on trying to avoid death
Hannah, her new secretary anC
chauffeur sail to Belgium and Alice
meets most strange death.
Then Theodore received a deatl
note and his death was strange. No
a detective was called in during al
of these strange deaths until Han
nah died"
Here you have moving action anC
q plot that thickenS and increase
in every chapter. Death Away
struck in different way.
Some interesting new books hav,
been added to the Business branch
library. The books include:
Recovery, the Second Effort" b,
Salter. which contains some con
structive proposals for the allevia
ton of the economic consequence
Of peace"
Advertising Media" by Agnew
which considers the factors gov
erning the selection of newspapers
magazines, trade papers, radio ant
the like"
Money for Tomorrow" by Wood
ward, which considers the 'reme
dies for the financial rehabilitation
Of this country"
z~a n
Have received word that Macmil
Ian this month is publishing a frs
book Of poetry of young American
poet, Phillips Kloss. This should b.
good news to the many unknown
poets who are writing poetry in In,
diana. Kloss writes of the countr!
he knows, the southwest.
LAAOoC Va 10 wiz III
Jeanne dare will be interested il
The Trial of Jeanne dare" which
has been translated from the orig
inal court records by w. P. Barrett
1t is published by Gotham Hous,
and sells for 81.
The book gives you the impression
that the trial is going on now, no
500 wears ago
love to play detective. VIII,
doesn't. You will be your own de
tective just as 1 was when reat
Five Fatal Words" by Edwin Bal
mer, just published by Ray Lon
and Richard r. Smith.
This unusually constructed move
permits the reader to be the detec
tive as this is mystery in Searcl
of a detective.
l have before me a copy of a boo
which was written to prevent auto
mobile accidents. AS far as 1 know
is is the only book of its kind an
the author, H. H. Evans of New
castle, Ind, makes the same claim
Evans calls his book, Death an
Destruction with Motor Vehicles
How to Prevent" and sells for 81. 2:
but the first 1000 autographs
copies sells for 81.
/ like this book for several reason
and one of them is that it pays at
tention to annoying horns.