Show I Two Stories of i I Murder Murd r Mystery I 9 f Charles Chares Barry has been leen a favorite with m mystery st rr story tory readers for some time and a d he l has as written some hair hair- raising tale tales His Ills newest contribution contri contri- I ht to is The Clue to the Clot Just been pub pub- Barry u usually provides some in international in- in complications in h liP his books together wi with with- r the necessary thread of murder which holds the center center- center of the stage throughout In Inthis Inthis Inthis this recent book he has done the same thing i A 1 S man of f questionable character Is found murdered In his office In ne c-ne of the better office buildings building in London Lodo Th The The- police pollee are notified noti neti- fied led and Scotland Yard immediately immediate immediate- ly takes up up the scent There are areat areat at l least ast two dozen people who would i h haVe ye b bad d a motive for killing 1 the theman theman man but It cannot be pinned onto any of them II In the meantime the tIle detectives on the case make malc a a. startling discovery dis dis- covery cover They find that the murdered murdered mur mur- mur-I mur dered man in addition to keeping an Illegal megal money lending business In connection with his Asiatic trade is also connected with a huge international in international in- in white slave ring which I stretches clear across the Atlantic the reader through h ha Barry carries complications before fi finally Ii- Ii series of a nally revealing and cle clearing up the mystery Its It's all very thrilling thrilling-If I you like mysteries E. E. E P. P Dutton Dutton Dut- Dut ton Co New York Barrys Barry's Just the opposite from ingenious brain child Elizabeth I another of her has written Jord Jordan n has named It stories and mystery Deep Sea Th The Tho Devil and the it it point to While 11 lie Barry makes a a a- the he story ston early in t murder perfect a a. doesn't let the reader Miss Jordan not murder or whether theres there's know know even after and one doesn't the book has been completed novel deals with a l Jordans Jordan's Miss Miss' who has several wealthy spinster nothIng nothing noth noth- she cares relatives for whom that old lady thinks ing about ie much family the she has not helped undertakes undertakes under under- she so during her lifetime takes tales to do somethIng for them after artel out an and she works her he death leath Ingenious Ing plan The h P p an I she e. e evolved is S. S She makes a stipulation in her will I that the whole family must live In her house together with her lawyer and her nurse for six months after I her death During this time the nurse and lawyer are to act as de detectives detectives de- de to find out anything they can about the the- family But there is little that they find out about them and the things the they do find out do donot donot donot not aid considerably in solving the theone theone theone one problem When the book Is closed one still asks Did the lady die a natural death or was she poisoned Into this array of personalities Miss Jordan has Injected little a ray of romance which brings everything I to a delight delightful CUI close The The Cen- Cen tuy ury Co lf New rl York 2 k |