The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-30

will be remembered even above oul hero Homer. Despite great dea of nonsense, most of it clever, there is mystery which will keep you gO- l ing right up to the end, when YOU ! turn to the second story.
 The author takes himself anC subject more seriously in Summer in December Brett Rutledge, ot mysterious background but guar anteed loyalty takes on gang oi NaZi SaboteurS in Chile, raScals Whc are determined to gimmick up the nitrate fields. Spanish dancers flamenco singers and American en gineers, all fairly credible folk, join in the Whirl of suspense, and every body but the enemy winds up breathless, satisfied and happy
 A good thing, these doubledeckers Each novel long enough, yet not toe long, and you get two for the price of one.
 MORE MYSTERY
 ANOTHER mystery novel, one which strives for emphasis on the novel; part and comes fairly close to making the grade. is Marjorie CarletOn'S "Cry Wolf" (MOrrOw $2.5O) Sandra Marshall, grand daughter of an eX-protessor at liar yard, agrees to marry James Cald- well Demarest, who will then re- ceive a large inheritance, pay her $10,000 and after six months, quietly divorce her She needs the money for research trip to Mexico and to care for her 92-year-old granddad, and since the alliance is wheat day time serials invariably term "a mar riage in name only" she goes through with it.
 But before the period is up, San dra gets word that her husband has suddenly died. She pays her first visit to Willow Miles, where Mark Caldwell learns for the first time that nephew Jim had married . Sandra stays on for the funeral, gets the idea in her pretty head that the corps is a wax dummy and not Jim Demarest, and Mark, who messes about at midnight in a closed-of laboratory, begins to take on a pretty sinister aspect.
 There is a satisfactory amount of nocturnal proving, ample sus- pense, and though the seasoned davenport detective won't have much trouble in cracking the solu- ton early in the book, Cry Wolf" is better-than- average entertain ment.
 FABULOUS FAMILY
 PERHAPS what happened to Otsego when the Tollivers moved in shouldn't happen to any self respecting MiddletoWn, U. s. A., but the staid citizens should have been secretly grateful Nothing much ever happened in OtSego, and in the days of no radios and almost no automobiles there wasn't a great deal to do or talk about. The Widow Tolliver and her daughters Flora belle and Annabelle CtWinS), and Amy changed all that, It wasn't long before their fame had spread to Elmira, Binghamton, and even Wilkes Barre. Otsegoans found time between gasps over their antics to take a certain strange pride in their fabulous Tollivers.
 MateeI Howe Farnum tells the saga of "The TOllivers" DOdd, Mead: $2.5O) through the observa- tions, both first and second hand, of Louise Olmstead, boarding school-aged daughter of Judge Ann stead, who inadvertently helped touch off the explosion that made OtSego Tolliver-conScious. When young Hubert Tolliver shot him. self, ingratiating sister Amy pre- vailed upon the Judge to arrange for a fancy church funeral. with the Mayor included among the pall- bearers. The idea of roping in Hizoner appealed to the Judge. and he went ahead, elaborating on the interment arrangements until the result was funeral that set the town on it's ears.
 The Tollivers, gambling on Hu- ber'S insurance money, moved into a big house across the street from the mansion occupied by Louises wealthy cousin Sam Forbes and hls cousin Nelson Forbes. It was ap- parent to Otsego that Mrs. Tolliver was intent on marrying off her rav- ishing daughters-tw of them any war-and the town awaited develop ments with bated breath. They were not long in coming. Otsego was III turn outraged charmed, bowled over, and speeches. at the goings-on O. the Tollivers, too numerous and in volved to be even touched on in this space. The novel is top-notch reading, effortlessly hilarous
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