

THE HURRICANE
by Charles Nordloff and James Norman Hall · Little, Brown
A Polynesian escapes prison to return home during a raging storm.

IT CAN'T HAPPEN HERE
by Sinclair Lewis · Doubleday, Doran
A dark satire about the rise of a fascist American dictator.


IF I HAVE FOUR APPLES
by Josephine Lawrence · Stokes
Originally published: New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co., 1935.

GAUDY NIGHT
by Dorothy L. Sayers · Harcourt, Brace
When the dons of Harriet Vane's alma mater, the all-female Shrewsbury College, Oxford, invite her back to attend the annual Gaudy celebrations, the mood turns sour when someone begins a series of malicious acts. Who is responsible for the poison-pen messages, obscene graffiti, and wanton vandalism? Harriet asks her old friend Lord Peter Wimsey to investigate.
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