Murder in April

WHO'S CALLING--Helen McCloy-- Morrow ($2). Unidentified telephone messages tell the chorus girl fiancee of a well-born young Marylander to stay away from the family mansion or else. A murder follows and Basil Willing delves into abnormal psychology to bring up the slayer. Scientifically sound, deductively excellent.

CALAMITY TOWN--Ellery Queen--Little, Brown ($2). The prescient Mr. Queen, unable to prevent the poison-murder he foresaw, probes small-town family histories for an unexpected answer to an intricate and beguiling mystery. The best Queen story in several years.

DEATH ON THE AISLE--Frances and Richard Lockridge--Lippincott ($2). Mr. & Mrs. North, especially the latter, lend their exasperating assistance to Lieut. Weigand of the New York police in clearing up the murders of a theatrical angel and an actress who knew too much. Good plot, highlighted by Pam North's wacky humor.

HAUNTED LADY--Mary Roberts Rinehart--Farrar & Rinehart ($2). Nurse Adams is deputized by a police commissioner to watch over a wealthy widow whose bedroom is inexplicably visited by bats and rats. Outwitted momentarily by a clever murderer, Nurse Adams finally forces a confession. A clean-cut, quick-stepping yarn, minus the garrulous complexities of recent Rinehart stories.

ASSIGNMENT IN GUIANA--George Harmon Coxe--Knopf ($2). An eventful and fast-moving tale of Nazi intrigue in South America, where a young Bostonian assists the Georgetown constabulary in the solution of two murders.

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