Chicago Tribune du lieu suivant : Chicago, Illinois • 154

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1967 (Chitaoo (Tribune BOOKS TODAY PAGE J4 Bestseller! Crime on My Hands by ternate and has been sold to the movies. But why? I offer a genuine phoenix feather for the best answer. The story begins well enough with a famous author-father, who is in Tokyo to investigate the mysterious death of his soldier son The February Plan, by J.imes Hall Roberts Morrow, $4.95. will, if you let it, use up all your supply of disbelief for the season. This 313-page thriller, which couIJ have been subtitled "Who's Minding the Bomb?" is a book club al sBUi'yfj Plimpton At all bookstores S5.95 by Alice Cromle whom he had neglected in life.

He soon encounters many bafflements and tricks which seem to be Made in America. Eventually, Phillip Cor-man and his girl Friday, whose romance is chiefly a series of discussion periods about as passionate as a seminar in epistolography, throw the switch on an electronics center with a management problem. Sick fathers are really sick, dead heroes really dead, and tho a bad guy changes his mind quixotically, a bad girl doesn't. Unfortunately, bad girl plus bad plot doesn't equal good book. To Hell for Half a Crown, by James Cross Random House, $3.95 isn't as good as its title, which is a dandy fit comes from "There's not a roaring blade in all this town Can go so far toward hell for half-a-crown As I for sixpence, for I know- the way," by Charles Sackville.

Earl of Dorset. Again, the beginning is a tempting carrot: an ex-intclligcnce agent pears in Who's Who, as revealed in the jacket biography, seems the least likely recommendation for a good suspense yarn jet to come to a blurb writer's mind. Runaway Home, by Kage Booton Crime Club, $3.95, is an aptly done and timely story of the near disintegration of a warm and mutually respectful family of three when the daughter of well-to-do and loving parents falls into the spell of a leather-jacketed singer-guitarist. The scene is New Jersey but could be set in any middle class suburb. Teens versus tense parents.

Sly as a Serpent, by Kyle Hunt Macmillan, S3.95. Hunt John Creasey has never been better than in this problem of an apron-string breaking that proves disastrous in some respects. Dr. Emmanuel Cellini, the sort of wise man only the luckiest of us encounter, again performs credible miracles as the best psychiatrist-detective in fiction. has fallen upon such bad emotional times that he's become a newspaper man and is, naturally, drinking himself to death.

He is hired to find a missing heir by one of those eccentric nonagenarians who own their hometowns and invariably have the kind of nasty-d i a ble granddaughters who used also invariably to be played by Barbara Stanwyck with jodhpurs, curled lip. and twitchy riding cropj1 Our hero abandons bar for belle; his search leads him to European scenes, war criminals, beds, and back again to Bradford Falls. before any of the sheets have cooled off. A child of io, say, who has paid any attention to TV scare shows, Halloween, or picture coverage of Truman Capote social events, could have solved the puzzle of the moon-faced man the first time he appears, but it takes the protagonist most of the course to admit the obvious. Small complaint department: the fact that the author is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and ap These are the leading nominees for the 1967 NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS THE SECOND NOTEBOOK by Mignon McLaughlin Funny, wry, and wise a book of barbed aphorisms and home truths, as gift-able as it is quotable and as big a hit as the first volume which is now in its third printing.

$2.75 at all well-adjusted bookstores bBbVJB a Bobbn-Mirrf" 1 Cafs-eye-vieiv GUIDE On Wednesday. March 8th. tte fwa winners of the 1967 bortal Book Awards wiH be announced in a presentation ceremony at Philnarfnomc Hall. Lincoln Center, in Neat York. Meanwhile, these are among the books by American authors published in the united States in 1966 which the ptdges regard as among the most distinguished: fiction LOUIS AUCHINCLOSSThe Embezzler Houghton Mifflin BERNARD MALAMUO The Fixer Farrar.

Straus Giroux EDWIN O'CONNOR AM in the Family Atlantic Little. Brown WALKER PERCY The Last Gentleman Farrar. Straus Giroux HARRY PETRAKIS A Dream of Kings David McKay WILFRID SHEED Office Politics Farrar. Straus Giroux Judges: John Hutchens, Mark Schorer, Anthony West poetry JOHN ASHBERY Rivers and Mountains Holt.Rinehart Winston BARBARA HOWES Looking Up at Leaves Alfred A. Knopf JAMES MERRILL Nights and Days Atheneum MARIANNE MOORE Tell Me.

Tell Me Viking Press ADRIENNE RICH Necessities of Lite W. W. Norton WILLIAM JAY SMITH The Tin Can and Other Poems DeUcort Press A Seymour Lewieme Book Judges: W. HL Auden. James DKkey.

Howard Nemerow arts and letters TRUMAN CAPOTE In Cold Blood Random House JUSTIN KAPLAN Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain Simon and Schuster OLIVER LARKIN' Deurmer: Man of His Tune McGraw-Hill FREDERICK A. POTTLE James BosweU: The Earlier Years McGraw-Hill ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER In My Father's Court Farrar. Straus tV Grou SUSAN SON TAG Against Interpretation Farrar. Straus A Giroux LAWRENCE THOMPSON Robert Frost: The Early Years Holt, Rinehart 4 Winston Judges Saul Matotf.

Lon Tinkle. Aileen Ward history and biography JAMES H. BILLINGTONThe Icon and the Axk An Interpret! xe History ol Russian Culture Alfred A. Knopf DAVID B. DAVIS The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture Cornell University Press MARTIN DOBERMANi James Russell Lowell Houghton Mifflin PETER GAY I The Enhghtenment: An Interpretation Alfred A.

Knopf BARRINGTON MOORE. Jr.Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy Beacon Press PETER STANSHV and WILLIAM ABRAHAMS Journey to the Frontier AtteM Little. Brown Judges: James MecGrefor Bums. Leon Edef. Van Woodward To TttEl 'STOCK A Back-Fence Story FICTION BY AUGUSTA WALKER Rerien ed by Ethel Jacobson MARKET AUsolutely the firgt book lo give young people who slio tlie slightest interest in fuinmc JO WORTH Unl7 M1IXJO.MS The Library of Wall Street p.n Ro.

man weeks. Parry has an even more traumatic experience when he is lost in the great outside jungle and must scrabble for survivat with the gaunt strays he finds there. The reader is as relieved as he when one day the right turning brings him again to the right door. QUIETLY, WITHOUT fanfare, we are given what must be a cat's-eye-view of the world, one with its peculiar demands and uncertainties, where a human is either hostile, indifferent, or to be recognized as "a species known to cats, a creature ho shares the dangers of their existence and conspires with them to keep them alive." Knopf, 145 pages. $4.95 Sprincfield, Maw.

01101 I I -WSm BOSTON Me STRANGLE? CtraM Fnak't'clMtie." WELCOME AUGUSTA Walker to the fellowship of those who can enter into the special world of the cat Perhaps it is truer to say that the cat entered her world. At least, one little gray cat with green eyes, "a tramp at heart," moves in on Ann, the shadowy human of "A Back-Fence Story." and leave: only after four plump kittens are born and duly weaned. Ann Bug and Nosey, the white-trimmed black females who are soon exploring the city gardens, with their networks of back-fence runways, that lie outside her kitchen door. There is the first fearful encoun ter with a predatory torn. There is flaming romance for Bug in the form of the handsome and ardent Big Tuffy.

And a quiet little affair for the less passionate Nosey. There are once i 1 1 in the blanket-lined box behind the door. One kit from each mother's first and only litter is kept Purry, who has Bug's same exquisite markings, and Bitsy, who "had managed somehow to be almost a long-haired cat." Life, however, is not a 1 1 kidney and skittles. Nosey vanishes, and is not seen again. Bitsy is kidnaped for two terrifying I U-SS science, philosophy and religion HOWARD B.

ADELMANN MarceHo Malpighi and the Evolution of Embryotomy Cm iiell University Press GEORGE and MURIEL BEADLE The Language of Doutjtedey WASSH.V W. LEONTIEF Essays in Economics Oxford University Press OSCAR LEWIS La Vida Random House PHILIP RIEFF The Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith After Freud Warper Row ERWIN W. STRAUS Pltenomanological Psychology Basic Books Judges: Hannah Arendt. John Cogley. Gregory Vlastos IOOKS TODAY is for people who have a leather easy chair, a Turkish hassock, and 60 dog-eared paperbacks The New I Awards are ewrmrWstered ay the ftahenel Seek Cemmmee.

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