HEARSES DON'T HURRY

by "StephenRansome" (pseudonym for Frederick C.Davis) '28, The Crime Club. 1941. 272 p.$2.00.

ALTHOUGH THE BOOKS BY "Stephen Ransome" are considerably different in kind from the stories told by Mr. Davis himself, and although the Ransome tales introduce characters of quite another sort from those to be found in the Cyrus Hatch saga, the swiftmoving action by which both sets of stories progress from excitement to excitement, gives them more than a little in common.

In Hearses Don't Hurry, (and they, by the way, are the only things in the book that don't), we find that when a State's Attorney sets out to prove a charge of crookedness and general misbehavior against the District Attorney he may, like Christopher Chance, find himself forced to fight fire with fire, to the extent of adopting some of his opponent's questionable tactics. And then, when his departure from the ineffective, but safe path of the law threatens to become public property, the energetic investigator may find his new methods backfiring, thereby bringing him to the verge of disgrace, disbarment, and sudden removal from office, and bringing the reader to the edge of his chair as arson, blackmail, kidnapping, and murder after murder succeed one another in exciting sequence.