Murder in April

SABOTAGE --Cleve F. Adams--Dutton ($2). Irishman McBride, who has practically no morals, gets interested in the repeated accidents at the Palos Verde Dam project. McBride robustly progresses through a tough town teeming with blondes, brunettes, fist fights, murders.

GOLDEN ASHES--Freeman Wills Crofts--Dodd, Mead ($2). Inspector French bumbles through arson and murder in a complicated case stemming from the unsuccessful transmogrification of a plain Chicago citizen into a baronet in Surrey.

DEATH CAME DANCING-- Kathleen Moore Knight--Crime Club ($2). At the Pollera Ball in Panama, Mrs. Richmond, native seductress, appears with her ancestral gold and jeweled headdress, and a minor English diplomat. When murder is done, Elisha Macomber, sage of Penberthy Island, Me., cleans up the mess.

MURDER IN SILENCE--George Selmark--Crime Club ($2). Quiet, orderly series of murders in the Old English pattern. Good bit: Dr. MacFarlane's home for drunks.

THE CASE OF THE BAKER STREET IRREGULARS--Anthony Boucher--Simon and Schuster ($2). Murder of a script writer who is about to mangle The Speckled Band for Producer F. X. Weinberg. Five of the Irregulars--professional men deep-steeped in Sherlock-Holmesiana -- forgather in Hollywood as F. X.'s guests, to advise on the picture. Each has an extraordinary adventure, adapted from some case of Holmes's. The script writer turns out to be a bad man as well as a bad writer.

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