The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-24
BY WALTER d. HICKMAN


IF you have been looking for a
Il murder mystery that is different,
then I can tell you that such a
novel is The Murderer of Sleep,
by Mildred Kennedy, the author of
Half Mast Murder.
The title may be little battling
but it deals with series Of crimes
in a little village on a river in Eng
lad by the name Of Sleep.
This little village might have slept
on for another century if some
strange people had not arrived and
rented three cottages on one of the
banks of the river.
In one cottage we nave Mr.. Can
: non, a cripple in an arm chair who
could not talk with the exception
of yelling out what sounded like
"yes" to everything, With him was
his nephew, Richard Churt, and also
an attendant who wheeled the Grip
pie about Cannon and his attend
ant was dangerously near the scene
of the several murders as well as
two daring jewel thefts.
In another cottage was Colonial
Jethro, a cunning old rascal who
was also mighty close to the places
where the crimes happened. With
him was his beautiful stepdaughter,
known as AnstiCe Carey.
In the third cottage was Grant
Nicholson, man of mystery, who
discovered the dead body of tbs
English rector of the village OF
Sleep very close to his church.
The fact Is in The Murderer OF
Sleep" the reader suspects each
and every one of the inhabitants
of these three cottages.
The story opens with the murder
of a very rich woman in a hotel
room. And all of the suspects are
on the scene with one exception as
far as we know at the begging and
that was Grant. And yet his IN
tluence seems to be present.
For long time the reader can
not tell whether Grants influence is
one of good or bad as he is one OF
the most battling characters we
have in modern fiction.
1t is this power of confusion as
well as accurate character drawing
ION the part of the author that
makes THE Murderer of Sleep" Sc
different from the mine run mystery
novels.
Here is a mystery pattern that
will keep you up early into the
morning if you do not start 1t early
enough.
"The Murderer of Sleep" is pub
lished by H. c. Kinsey and sells
for 50.
What are they reading in non
fiction? Brentanos reports the fol
lowing British Agent" by Bruce
Iockhart; United States in Worlo
Affairs by Walter Lippman; Phil
osophy of Solitude" by John Cowpel
Powys, Upton Sinclair Present:
William Fox; The Way OF Escape,
by Philip Gibbs, and "A Worlo
Passed by by Marvin Lowenthal
And that is pretty heavy reading.
Have lust received from the
Modern Library two books ISSUED
under the title of New Modern
Giants. And they are both giants
in size.
one of them is the complete nov
els of Jane Austin in one volume
This volume includes Pride anc
Prejudice" Emma Sense and
Sensibility." Mansfield Park Per.
suasion' and "Northanger Abbey
The other volume of the series il
: "The Medici" by G. r. Young and i:
the complete biography Of this high
" tragic family. This work is il
lustrated.
And each book sells for 81.
Max Miller, who wrote Il Cove
the Waterfront has new one K
his credit 1t is He Went Away
for Awhile" and is published BY
Dutton. And the experiences re.
cited in this newspaperman'S lates
are his own.
l.
In riding the BUSES going to anC
from work, the book I see most il
the hands of others is Ann Wick.
erS." by Sinclair Lewis. And I have
seen three copies of Alice in Won.
derland" in the past few days.
often see people reading the Bible
as they go to work.
In answer to a question. an
informed that the late John Gals.
worthy finished a new novel before
he died 1t mas the significant title
of "One More River" and will frs
appear as a magazine serial. 1t i!
based upon the old hymn. There,
one more river to cross, one more
river. and that's the River Jordan.
It is a companion to Maid in Wait.
ing" and Towering Wilderness"