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The Hallowe'en Murder. , By Doris Miles Dis- ney. (Foulsham, 10s.

6d.) A wife is murdered, and the two obvious suspects—the husband, and the woman he means to make his mistress—have impregnable alibis. If a killer was hired, what was the inducement? Well-contrived and ingenious Puzzle-story, cosily embedded in the chromium- Plated world of American biggish business..