A Brand New Life, [by] James T. Farrell. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1968. 371p.

Chicago is well described in this harshly realistic study of loneliness in the city in the spring of 1928. After Anne's divorce from Zeke Daniels, she moves to Chicago where she meets Roger Raymond. Immediately they begin living together. Their relationship continues until she meets his brother George. George isn't the steady worker that Roger is, but he has other attributes, and Anne's alimony makes it possible for her to support him. A Brand New Life, part of Farrell's series A Universe of Time, is a sequel to What Time Collects, which is set in a Midwestern city outside of Illinois.

Atlantic, 7/1968, p. 106. Booklist, 9/1/1968, p. 43. Kirkus, 5/15/1968, p. 479. N. Y. Times Book Review, 7/14/1968, p. 4. Publishers Weekly, 4/22/1968, p. 51.

Calico Shoes, And Other Stories by James T. Farrell. New York: The Vanguard Press, [1934.] 303p.

Calico Shoes is Chicago! Raw, shocking, and overpowering, the sixteen short stories set in sleazy hotels, ramshackle flats, reeking taverns, smoky poolrooms, busy streets, and garbage-strewn alleyways, tells it as it is in the nation's second largest city.

CONTENTS: Helen, I Love You.--The Scarecrow.--Looking 'Em Over.--The Buddies.--A Front-page Story,--Just Boys.--Honey, We'll Be Brave.--A Casual Incident.--Clyde.--Jim O'Neill.--Twenty-five Bucks.--Mary O'Reilley.--Calico Shoes.--Sunday.--Well, That's That.--Meet the Girls!

Book Review Digest, 1934, p. 302.

A Dangerous Woman, and Other Stories [by] James T. Farrell. New York: The Vanguard Press, Inc., [1957.] 160p.

Stories in this volume set at least partly in Chicago include: "Boys and Girls," "Grammar School Love," "Memento Mori," "Senior Prom," and "Norman Allen." These little dramas played out in the lives of very ordinary people are typical of Farrell's style and variety.

CONTENTS: A Dangerous Woman.--Little Johnny: A Fable.--Boys and Girls.--Edna's Husband.--A Saturday Night in America.--Grammar School Love.--I'm Dancing Frances.--Memento Mori.--Senior Prom.--Success Story.--Norman Allen.--Joe.--Saturday Night in Paris,--It's Cold in the Alps.

Book Review Digest, 1958, p. 355.

Ellen Rogers, [by] James T. Farrell. New York: The Vanguard Press, [1941.] 429p.

Ellen Rogers is a willful and spoiled Chicago flapper in 1925. As the daughter of an indulgent but not wealthy widower, Ellen is accustomed to getting her own way. She enjoys teasing and tormenting men until she meets and falls in love with the unscrupulous Ed Lanson. Under his malevolent influence her life gradually, frighteningly, crumbles. This unlovely love story focuses entirely on Ellen and Ed, two of Farrell's most memorable characters.

Book Review Digest, 1941, p. 288-9.

Fellow Countrymen, Collected Stories [by] James T. Farrell... London: Constable, [1937.] 439p.

Similar in scope to the American publication, The Short Stories of James T. Farrell, Fellow Countrymen is composed basically of stories from Calico Shoes, Guillotine Party, and Can All This Grandeur Perish?

CONTENTS: Jim O'Neill.--The Buddies.--Precinct Captain.--Calico Shoes.--The Benefits of American Life.--For White Men Only.--All Things Are Nothing to Me.--The Open Road.--A Front Page Story.--The Scoop.--Rev. Father Gilhooley.--In Accents of Death!--A Practical Joke.--Can All This Grandeur Perish?--Wanted: A Chauffeur.--Spring Evening.--A Jazz-Age Clerk.--A Casual Incident.--Seventeen.--Wedding Bells Will Ring So Merrily.--Children of the Times.--A Noble Guy.--Mr. Lunkhead, the Banker.--The Doctor.--Sunday.--Nostalgia.--Mary O'Reilley.--Twenty-five Bucks.--Soap.--Guillotine Party.--Mendel and His Wife.--The Professor.--Angela.--Helen, I Love You.--Curbstone Philosophy.--The Merry Clouters.--Comedy Cop.--A Sunday in April.

Fifteen Selected Stories, [by] James T. Farrell. New York: N[ew] Y[ork:] Avon Book Company; 432 Fourth Avenue... [1943.] 162p. (Avon Modern Short Story Monthly, No. 10)

The fifteen stories contained in this paperbound edition are representative of Farrell's early writing, including the choice stories from One Thousand Dollars a Week, Guillotine Party and Can All This Grandeur Perish? plus two additional stories from other sources. All but the four stories "Mr. Lunkhead, the Banker," "Soap," "Counting the Waves," and "After the Sun Has Risen" deal directly with Chicago.

CONTENTS: Helen, I Love You.--Can All This Grandeur Perish?--Wanted: A Chauffeur.--Mr. Lunkhead, the Banker.--A Front-page Story.--Nostalgia.--The Professor.--Mary O'Reilley.--Soap.--Counting the Waves.--After the Sun Has Risen.--The Fate of a Hero.--The Sport of Kings.--A Jazz-Age Clerk.--The Fall of Machine Gun McGurk.

Gas-House McGinty, A Novel by James T. Farrell. Author of "Studs Lonigan." New York: The Vanguard Press, [1933.] 364p.

Gas-House McGinty reflects the author's experiences as a young man employed by an express company in Chicago. The novel is a portrait of men at work, showing vividly the effects on their lives of the noisy telephones, the pressures of the job, the stultifying routines and the close company they must keep with each other. Gas-House McGinty, the Chief Dispatcher in the Wagon Call Department of the Continental Express Company, is a pathetic character who eventually gets transferred to a lesser position. Also included are Danny O'Neill and his father Jim, characters in Farrell's O'Neill-O'Flaherty series. With cruel, coarse jokes and banter, the men relate to each other and express their frustrations. Although this is not one of Farrell's more polished novels it does give the reader a realistic picture of one company's work force in 1920.

Book Review Digest, 1933, p. 302.

The Girls at the Sphinx, [by] James T. Farrell. [London: Hamilton & Co., 1959.] 160p. (A Panther Book)

Seventeen short stories, all previously published by Vanguard Press in the United States, constitute this paperback volume from Britain. Six stories are set in Chicago: "Slouch," "Milly and the Porker," "Johnny's Old Man," "Whoopee for the New Deal!" "A Jazz-Age Clerk," and "Yesterday' s Love."

CONTENTS: The Girls at the Sphinx.--Literary Love.--Love Affair in Paris.--An American Dream Girl.--A Misunderstanding.--Have I Got Sun in My Eyes?--Slouch.--A Coincidence.--Milly and the Porker.--A Day at the Zoo.--Johnny's Old Man.--I Want to Go Home.--Whoopee for the New Deal!--A Jazz-Age Clerk.--Yesterday's Love.--Accident.--A Short Story.

Guillotine Party, And Other Stories by James T. Farrell. New York: The Vanguard Press, [1935.] 305p.

Farrell's familiarity with the Chicago scene, born of his own youth in that city's streets, amply qualifies him to write the type of social realism in which this collection of short stories abounds. Although reviewers have criticized him for narrow vision, similarity of theme, and monotony, they generally agree that the quality of writing declines when he departs from the familiar, as in the three stories, "Soap," "Guillotine Party," and "Footnote," which are included, along with sixteen Chicago stories.

CONTENTS: Soap.--The Open Road.--Guillotine Party.--Big Jeff.--In Accents of Death!--The Little Blond Fellow.--The Merry Clouters.--Reverend Father Gilhooley.--Jo-Jo.--All Things Are Nothing to Me.--A Practical Joke.--Wedding Bells Will Ring So Merrily.--The Benefits of American Life.--Nostalgia.--For White Men Only.--Footnote.--Comedy Cop.--Two Sisters.--Studs.

Book Review Digest, 1935, p. 320.

Judgment Day, by James T. Farrell. New York: The Vanguard Press, 1935. 465p.

This third volume of the Studs Lonigan trilogy, which follows Young Lonigan and The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan, continues the narrative of moral and physical disintegration begun in the previous volumes, culminating with the death of the hero at age 29. Ill health, emotional depression, unemployment, alcoholism, sexual excesses, and social upheaval take their toll in the sordid, realistic story of decline and death, ending as it begins with Studs the object of family conflict and religious concern. Considered individually, Judgment Day is an entity complete and independent of its two predecessors, often surpassing them in terms of style and unity. As the final portion of the Lonigan trilogy, Judgment Day properly concludes the chronicle of Studs Lonigan, neatly explaining and tying together any loose ends that are apparent in the two previous volumes. The setting is Chicago around 1930.

Book Review Digest, 1935, p. 320-1.

The Life Adventurous, and other stories by James T. Farrell. New York: The Vanguard Press, Inc., [1947.] 313p.

More than half of the stories in this book are set in the Chicago Farrell knew as a youth in the 1920s and 1930s. About priests and bums, kids and communists, the stories cover a range of topics in a realistic tone, and demonstrate a keen understanding of human nature.

CONTENTS: The Life Adventurous.--The Philosopher.--Young Artist.--The Triumph of Willie Collins.--Father Timothy Joyce.--Joe Eliot.--Scrambled Eggs and Toast.--Saturday Night.--A Love Story of Our Time.--Olsen.--A Lesson in History.--The Dialectic.--Young Convicts.--Pat McGee.--Lunch Hour: 1923.--Called on the Carpet.--Comrade Stanley.--Episode in a Dentist's Office.--Quest.--Boyhood.

Book Review Digest, 1947, p.289.

More Fellow-Countrymen, [by] James T. Farrell. London: George Routledge & Sons, Ltd.; Broadway House, 68-74 Carter Lane... [1946.] 223p.

Eighteen early Farrell stories ten from $1,000 a Week and eight from To Whom It May Concern, comprise this small volume from Britain. Eight stories are set in Chicago: "The Sport of Kings," "Monday Is Another Day," "The Fate of a Hero," "Getting Out the Vote for the Working Class,'' "A Teamster's Payday," "Autumn Afternoon," "Street Scene," and "The Highland Family."

CONTENTS: The Sport of Kings.--Monday Is Another Day.--The Only Son.--Counting the Waves.--Sorel.--After the Sun Has Risen.--The Fate of a Hero.--The Fall of Machine Gun McGurk.--$1,000 a Week.--Getting Out the Vote for the Working Class.--To Whom It May Concern.--A Teamster's Payday.--Autumn Afternoon.--Tommy Gallagher's Crusade.--Baby Mike.--Patsy Gilbride.--Street Scene.--The Highland Family.

More Stories; To Whom It May Concern, by James T. Farrell. Garden City, New York: The Sun Dial Press, [1946.] 204p.

More Stories is a reprint of To Whom It May Concern, originally published by Vanguard Press in 1944. See No. 935.

My Days of Anger, by James T. Farrell. New York: The Vanguard Press, [1943.] 403p.

The last in the O'Neill-O'Flaherty pentalogy covers the years from 1924 to 1927, and ends as Danny makes plans to leave for New York. He works as a gas station attendant, attends classes at the University of Chicago, and becomes a campus reporter. Searching and restless, he becomes acquainted with history, sociology, creative writing, atheism, and syphilis. Eventually he develops self-confidence and, feeling his family's potential has never been realized, determines to seek fulfillment as a writer.

Book Review Digest, 1943, p. 251.

New Year's Eve/1929, by James T. Farrell. [New York:] The Smith, by arrangement with Horizon Press, [1967.] 144p.

Beatrice Burns, an unattractive and rather unpopular girl who is incurably ill, goes to a New Year's Eve party she has slyly maneuvered her Bohemian friends into giving. The purpose is to have one last fling, but the effect is largely unsatisfying. Thinking of and longing for the pleasures of life and the assurance of life itself, she is still desperately alone in facing death. Her preoccupation helps to focus the concerns of another party guest, Danny O'Neill, regarding his desire to use his life productively as a writer.

Book Review Digest, 1968, p. 410.

No Star Is Lost, by James T. Farrell. New York: The Vanguard Press, [1938.] 637p.

The third novel in the O'Neill-O'Flaherty series, No Star Is Lost concerns a period in Danny O'Neill's fourth grade year in parochial school during 1914 and 1915. Tragedies in the family and personal problems weigh heavily on the shoulders of this sensitive confused boy from Chicago's south side.

Book Review Digest, 1938, p. 308.

An Omnibus of Short Stories, by James T. Farrell. New York: The Vanguard Press, [1956.] 226, 204, 313p.

Nothing new, this volume contains the entire texts of three previously published volumes of Farrell's short stories.

CONTENTS: $1, 000 a Week.--To Whom It May Concern.--The Life Adventurous.

Book Review Digest, 1957, p. 300.

The Road Between, by James T. Farrell. New York: The Vanguard Press, Inc., [1949.] 463p.

Although Bernard Carr and his bride have settled in New York City, Chicago provides the setting for many of the best scenes in this novel. A struggling young writer with a wife who is accustomed to many luxuries, Bernard finds himself in financial straits when sales from his first novel fail to cover his advance payment. It is 1932, and opportunities are scarce. When his father dies in Chicago. Bernard and his wife return and become acquainted with each other's families. Farrell's disillusionment with the Communist Party is bitterly expressed as a background to young Bernard's struggle to maintain his self-esteem. This novel is the second in Farrell's Bernard Carr trilogy, preceding Yet Other Waters. The first novel was originally published as Bernard Clare, but the name was subsequently changed because of a coincidence in names resulting in a libel suit which was later dismissed. The setting for the first novel is New York.

Book Review Digest, 1949, p. 287-8.

Saturday Night, And Other Stories by James T. Farrell. [New York:] Published by the New American Library, [1950.] 192p. (A Signet Book)

Twelve stories all reprinted from other sources, constitute this paperback collection including some of Farrell's best work. All but one story, "Baby Mike," are set in Chicago.

CONTENTS: Saturday Night.--The Scarecrow.--Tournament Star.--Calico Shoes.--Accident.--Willie Collins.--Jo-Jo.--Baby Mike.--Reverend Father Gilhooley.--Comedy Cop.--Curbstone Philosophy.--The Life Adventurous.

The Short Stories of James T. Farrell. New York: The Vanguard Press, [1937.] 303, 305, 308p.

A reprint of three early Farrell works, this one volume contains fifty-two stories, most of them explicitly set in Chicago in the 1920s and 1930s. Many are selections from Farrell's novels or episodes in the lives of the characters of his novels, and most of the stories have the flavor of middle-class Irish-American life on Chicago's south side.

CONTENTS: Calico Shoes.--Guillotine Party.--Can All This Grandeur Perish?

Book Review Digest, 1937, p. 328.

Sound of a City, [by] James T. Farrell. New York: Paperback Library, Inc., [1962.] 176p.

Eight of twenty-four short stories, many having never previously appeared in print, present Chicago in all its decadence and glory. "Heinie Mueller," "So Long, Buck," "She Played Wagner and Beethoven," "Escapade," "Rackets and Racketeers, a Vaudeville Sketch," "The Ways of the World," "Casey," and ''William McNally" are set in Chicago.

CONTENTS: Flowers on Your Grave, a Fable.--Olivia Kane.--Heinie Mueller.--Anna.--Breakfast.--So Long, Buck.--She Played Wagner and Beethoven.--Escapade.--Man on an Island of History.--Rackets and Racketeers, a Vaudeville Sketch.--Ipswich and the Girls, a Fable.--French Post Cards.--A Story About Money.--The Ways of the World.--Casey.--Scene at the Coupole.--Battleship Jack.--Shorty Leach.--William McNally.--Arrival in England.--The Shrapnel.--Shepherd's Pipes.--I Want to Go to America.--Unfabled History.

To Whom It May Concern, And Other Stories by James T. Farrell. New York: The Vanguard Press, [1944.] 204p.

Of the twelve stories and one skit in this collection, seven are set in Chicago in the 1920s and 1930s: "Street Scene," "The Highland Family," "High-School Star," "Omar James," "A Teamster's Payday," "Autumn Afternoon," and "A Sunday in April." These stories are taken largely from Farrell's experiences as a child and young man on Chicago's south side, and are typical of his fast-moving dramatic writing.

CONTENTS: Baby Mike.--To Whom It May Concern.--Mr. Gremmer.--Patsy Gilbride.--A Teamster's Payday.--Street Scene.--The Highland Family.--High-School Star.--Omar James.--Autumn Afternoon.--A Sunday in April.--Clifford and William.--Tommy Gallagher's Crusade.

Book Review Digest, 1944, p. 231-2.

Twelve Great Stories, by James T. Farrell. New York, N[ew] Y[ork:] Avon Book Company; 432 Fourth Avenue, [1945...] 166p.

Ten of twelve short stories, all having previously appeared elsewhere, accurately reflect Chicago as it was during the first half of the twentieth century. Only "Baby Mike" and "Mr. Gremmer'' are not set in Illinois.

CONTENTS: Baby Mike.--Mr. Gremmer.--A Teamster's Payday.--Street Scene.--High-School Star.--Autumn Afternoon.--Yesterday's Love.--The Scoop.--The Oratory Contest.--Jim O'Neill.--A Nobel Guy.--Children of the Times.

A World I Never Made, by James T. Farrell. Author of Studs Lonigan. New York: The Vanguard Press, [1936.] 508p.

Living with his grandmother, Uncle Al, and Auntie Margaret because his poverty stricken, prolific parents cannot keep him, seven-year-old Danny O'Neill is a timid, lonely child alternately coddled and intimidated by aunt and grandmother, uncle and brother. During the six-month time span covered by the novel, Bill, Danny's oldest brother, is the most influential force in Danny's young life, for it is from Bill that he begins to learn the basic rules of existence in Chicago's brutal south side Irish slums. When A World I Never Made was published in 1936, it afforded contemporary critics an object on which to heap wrath, and many heartily welcomed the opportunity. Such epithets as vulgar, obscene, and dirty were generously applied. While the New York Times published a favorable review (with qualifications), the advertising department refused advertising from Vanguard Press for this particular title. Today, A World I Never Made ranks with Sister Carrie and other novels of the same genre which have withstood time and contemporary censure to be recognized by a later generation of readers as minor literary classics.

Book Review Digest, 1936, p. 330.

Yet Other Waters, by James T. Farrell. New York: The Vanguard Press, Inc., [1952.] 414p.

This final volume in the Bernard Carr series describes Carr's growing disenchantment and final break with the Communist Party in New York, the illness and death of his mother in Chicago, and a brief affair he has with a beautiful party worker. When Carr returns to Chicago he gains a better understanding of both his wife's family and his own, and with some professional success and closer relationships with his young son and pregnant wife, he achieves a degree of self-respect as the tormenting insecurity of his early years in New York subsides.

Book Review Digest, 1952, p. 295-6.

The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan, by James T. Farrell. Author of "Young Lonigan" and "Gas-House McGinty." New York: The Vanguard Press, [1934.] 412p.

At age seventeen, Studs Lonigan is slender, handsome, and athletic. He hangs around the poolroom, daydreams of enlisting, tries to impress Lucy Scanlan without admitting that he has any feelings for her, goes to confession, plays war, idolizes the neighborhood big shots, and experiments with acts that the priest labels sinful--a typical combination of impatient adolescence and sophomoric manhood. At age twenty-eight Studs Lonigan is bloated, unhealthy, and old. He has been an alcoholic, contacted VD, tried to reform, worked for his father as a house painter, whored, gambled, irreparably offended Lucy, taken dope, and sunken to the depths of the gutter--the picture of degeneracy and moral disintegration. This second volume of the Studs Lonigan trilogy, which also includes Young Lonigan and Judgment Day, portrays Chicago with all its brutality, ugliness, poverty, crime, and dereliction. It does not apologize; it does not minimize; but it records accurately and graphically all aspects of inner-city living during the 1920s and 1930s.

Book Review Digest, 1934, p. 302-3.

Daphne's in Love, by Negley Farson. New York [and] London: The Century Co., [1927.] 309p.

Set amid the world of the Chicago automobile industry, Daphne's in Love is a bit of fluff concerning the personal life of an office girl--whom she loves, whom she marries.

Book Review Digest, 1927, p. 245.

Fugitive Love, by Negley Farson. Author of "Daphne's in Love." New York [and] London: The Century Co., [1929.] 267p.

Jenny Cain's marriage to Chauncy O'Malley has been carefully arranged by her father, disregarding her love for Torsten Aberg. Then Torsten interferes, makes an enemy, and finds himself the target for a trigger-happy gunman in this action-packed novel of Chicago politics in the 1920s.

Book Review Digest, 1929, p. 302.

Power, A Novel by Howard Fast. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1962. 378p.

Based loosely on the history of the United Mine Workers and the life of John L. Lewis, Power is the moving story of the coal miners of West Virginia and Illinois in their struggle for a living wage and improved working conditions. Alvin Cutter first becomes aware of the miners' world when he is sent to Clinton, West Virginia, as a cub reporter, to interview Ben Holt, the newly elected president of the International Miners Union. Four years later Al Cutter is press agent, public relations man, and research director at the union's national headquarters in Pomax, Illinois, and is immersed in the biggest mine strike in history. The author has created a character; he has created a town. He has taken isolated incidents, reminiscent of the histories of Herrin, West Frankfort, and other southern Illinois coal towns and woven them intricately into a broad tapestry depicting the rise of the union. Although he has not adhered strictly to historic accounts, the author has successfully captured the character of the miner, the mood behind the strike, and the power of the organized labor movement.

Book Review Digest, 1963, p. 322.

Cheerful by Request, by Edna Ferber. Author of "Dawn O'Hara," "Buttered Side Down," "Roast Beef Medium," "Fanny Herself." Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1918. 366p.

See No. 447.

Gigolo, by Edna Ferber. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1922. 291p.

In the eight stories comprising this small volume, Miss Ferber serves up a rather odd but palatable combination of tangy satire and sweet sentimentality. The stories are all that one would expect from so talented a writer--crisp, clever, charming, and competent--filled with human drama, unfaltering reason, and extraordinary description. "The Afternoon of a Faun," "Old Man Minick," "Home Girl," and "The Sudden Sixties," are set in Chicago.

CONTENTS: The Afternoon of a Faun.--Old Man Minick.--Gigolo.--Not a Day Over Twenty-One.--Home Girl.--Ain't Nature Wonderful!--The Sudden Sixties.--If I Should Ever Travel!

Book Review Digest, 1922, p. 178.

Mother Knows Best, A Fiction Book by Edna Ferber. Author of Show Boat, So Big, etc. Garden City, N[ew] Y[ork:] Doubleday, Page & Co., 1927. 267p.

Eight pleasant short stories; three--"Mother Knows Best," "Consider the Lilies," and "Blue-Blood"--are set entirely, or in part, in Chicago.

CONTENTS: Mother Knows Best.--Every Other Thursday.--Classified.--Holiday.--Consider the Lilies.--Our Very Best People.--Perfectly Independent.--Blue Blood.

Book Review Digest, 1927, p. 248.

The Memoirs of Dunstan Barr, by Jonathan Fields. New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., [1959.] 382p.

See No. 454.

We Are Betrayed, [by] Vardis Fisher. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc.; and Caldwell, Idaho: The Caxton Printers Ltd., 1935. 369p.

The third in a tetralogy, We Are Betrayed tells of Vridar Hunter's turbulent married years--seven years which begin when he is a recently married undergraduate in Salt Lake City and end after three years of graduate work in Chicago when his wife commits suicide in 1923. Violently jealous, he alternately adores and abuses his wife, engulfs himself in searching for understanding in the works of the world's great philosophers, and ignores all reason in his personal life. Keenly written, the novel examines in detail the exigencies of existence for a brilliant but troubled mind.

Book Review Digest, 1935, p. 336.

The Sad, Sudden Death of My Fair Lady, by Stanton Forbes. Garden City, New York: Published for The Crime Club by Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1971. 161p.

The Chicago World's Fair of 1933 provides much of the colorful background for this well-told murder mystery. Buddy Carmody, the seventeen-year old who breezily narrates the story, becomes the man of the house when his father walks out. As the fair season begins and his mother arranges to take in boarders, among them some carnival people, Buddy's move into manhood becomes only one part of a summer made up of shocking realizations.

Best Sellers, 4/1/1971, p. 27. Booklist, 6/1/1971, p. 820. Kirkus, 1/1/1971, p. 26. Library Journal, 3/1/1971, p. 864.

The Case of the Blind Mouse, by Martin J. Freeman. Author of "The Murder of a Midget," "Murder by Magic," etc. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., [1935.] 256p. (A Dutton Clue Mystery)

The kidnapping of Eugene Evans, a popular Chicago radio personality, soon becomes a murder case, but private investigator Jerry Todd prefers to ignore that fact as he looks to Chicago's underworld for murderer and motive.

Book Review Digest, 1935, p. 359.

The Scarf on the Scarecrow, [by] Martin J. Freeman. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1938. 255p.

Brilliant sleuthing by Jerry Todd uncovers the secret behind two murders and a hidden cache on the run down estate of the Dule family, twenty-five miles southeast of Chicago.

Book Review Digest,1938, p. 343.

The Murder at Avalon Arms, by Owen Fox Jerome, [pseud.] New York: Edward J. Clode, Inc., [1931.] 309p.

Francis Keene, manager of a gambling establishment, has been murdered; Harry Lethrop, a youthful Chicago lawyer, is suspected of the deed; and Christine Vincennes appears to have been the decoy who led Lethrop into what appears to be a frame-up. Fortunately, Philip MacCray, Chicago police detective, solves the mystery to everyone's satisfaction.

Book Review Digest, 1931, p. 376.

The Red Kite Clue, by Owen Fox Jerome, [pseud.] Author of "The Hand of Horror." New York: Edward J. Clode, Inc., [1928.] 303p.

In this 1920s thriller, Chicago art thief Artemus Graham turns detective to help solve a murder for which he feels partially responsible.

Book Review Digest, 1929, p. 335.

The Flail, by Newton A. Fuessle. New York: Moffat, Yard & Company, 1919. 328p.

See No. 474.

Gold Shod, by Newton Fuessle. Author of "The Flail." New York: Boni and Liveright, Publishers, [1921.] 243p.

See No. 475.

The Knife and the Needle, A Novel by Diana Gaines. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1962. 336p.

The loneliness and frustration that are an ever-present part of being a doctor's wife are made quite apparent in Diana Gaines' story of Kay Quimby, who, as the wife of a famous Chicago surgeon, compensates by seeking love away from home. As her illicit affair begins to prove unmanageable, an explosion at her husband's clinic causes the couple to do considerable soul-searching which leads to a reconciliation of their differences. The Knife and the Needle combines love and medicine into a melodramatic tale of passion and catastrophe set amid a 1929 Chicago background.

Book Review Digest, 1962, p. 426.