The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-27

Charles the Merry. Doubleday.
Doran has just published this new
novel by Harrington
BY WALTER ID. HICKMAN
A UTHORS nowadays are not
a particular where they place
their murders, but it remained for
Monte Barrett to have a bridegroom
murdered just as he WAS to step
into the wedding procession and
march down the aisle of fashion,
able church
You will find such a murder mys-
terry in The Wedding March Muir
der" which is published today by
the Bobbs-M Merrill Company and
sells for 50.
This one may be called another
Peter Cardigan story because it is
this writer of mysteries who really
solves the crime when the detec-
tives in the story go up against a
stone wall.
You are concerned with jim
Franklin, the bridegroom and a
well-known New York attorney who
is being considered as his party's
next candidate for Governor.
Jim is murdered in the study of
Doctor Alternately, pastor of the
wealthy st. Matthew church as his
friend and best man is standing
outside the door
Prior to the time the pipe organ
started playing the wedding march.
Jim had had serious quarrels with
Ambrose Carmody, the father of
Doris, the bride; Rylie Carmody,
brother of Doris; Webster Spears,
former boy friend of Doris; a mys-
FERROUS woman in blue, and Daniel
Bulls, a powerful corrupt political
boss whom Jim had exposed.
The Carmodys became excited
when they discovered that jim
Franklin had had many women in
his life and that Helen (Choo Choo)
Train, show girl, was being kept
by Franklin in an expensive apart
ment at the very minute he was to
be married
Cardigan, the novelist, was in the
church waiting to see the ceremony
when the murder took place In
solving this mystery, Cardigan
comes pretty near meeting his
death. But hero detectives and nov
elists just do not get murdered this
season in fiction.
When Cardigan discovered the
motive, he was able to find the MUIR
derer.
This story comes under the head
OF entertaining mystery with the
murderer always present. but clev-
erly clouded with right motives.
Every place I 60, I am asked
What Is Technocracy?" Well. many
publishers are trying to answer that
question by releasing flood of
books on that subject.
Some of the more important ones
are Life In Technocracy. by
Harold Loes and tells how this svs-
tenn would affect the home. the
state and industries; What Is
Technocracy?" by Allen Raymond
in which ideas of the various lead
ers are given and explained, and
Introduction to Technocracy." by
Howard Scott, which is trying to
be made the official manual of the
TechnocratS.
Stuart Chase has written Tech
nocracy, An Interpretation" and
published by the John Day Com
pany. Chase has been thinking
along those lines many years be-
fore it was called democracy. At
times he questions the adequacy of
the conclusions of the leaders Of
Technocracy.
In answer to a question: Yes.
Havelock Ellis has written a new
book on sex. 1t is called "PSycholo-
gy of Sex" and it heads the spring
list OF Ray Long e. Richard R.
Smith. This is really a summary of
the life of the author as he is con-
= Sidered the worlds leading authority
on sex.
Marquis James. remembered as
the author of The Raven" which
was awarded the Pulitzer prize win
ming biography, has written a new
book. Andrew Jackson: The Border
Captain" 1t will be published by
BobbS- Merrill Company on March
Is, which is the one hundred and
sixty-SiXth anniversary of JackSon's
birth. James has been busy on this
biography since 1929.
Even the poets are putting tech
nocracy into verse. The Kingsley
press announces Elbows of the
Wind" by a. M. Sullivan. The fea-
ture poem is "EpoSch's End or "A
Jeremiad Celebrating the Collapse
Of the Machine Age" I have just
received a copy Of this poem which
is being considered as a poets def
milton of "Technocracy."
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