Fiction: Recent Books: Feb. 22, 1937

Verse

THE POEMS OF EMILY DICKINSON— edited by Martha Dickinson Bianchi & Alfred Leete Hampson—Little, Brown ($3.50). All the published poems (including 131 omitted in the Centenary Edition) of the Amherst recluse whose poetry waited almost half a century after her death to be called ”the finest by a woman in the English language.”

Murders

THE UNFINISHED CLUE — Georgette Heyer—Crime Club ($2). Fun and romancemix with cold-blooded murder when nine uncongenial persons spend an unpleasant English week-end in the country and the blustering host’s sudden death is not thought untimely by either guests or neighbors.

JUDGE PRIEST TURNS DETECTIVE—Irvin S. Cobb—Bobbs-Merrill ($2). The author’slovable old dram-drinking Kentucky judge turns his talents to sleuthing, succeeds in solving two fiendish crimes without losing either his charm or humor.

ILL MET BY MOONLIGHT—Leslie Ford —Farrar & Rinehart ($2). A summer colony smart set on the Eastern Shore of Maryland insist that the murder of a young woman who did not “belong”‘ is suicide, further aid the killer with endless conflicting stories in their efforts to protect one another, are saved from more murders by rotund Colonel Primrose and his faithful Sergeant Buck.