NYT-reviewed mysteries, June 1936.

Reviewed this week in the NYT 75 years ago:

• Murder of a Matriarch by Hugh Austin. "If you can determine not only the murderer but also the method, go to the head of the class."

• Strange Houses by Cora Jarrett. "a puzzle which unravels to a surprising end . . . the main lines of interest draw taut early and never slacken."

Sax Rohmer, from
the New York Tribune,
Apr 18, 1920

• X. Jones of Scotland Yard by the ever-odd Harry Stephen Keeler. "A lot of pother over something that nobody cares a whoop about."

• President Fu Manchu by Sax Rohmer.  "Fiction's most magnificent criminal turns his green eyes on the United States."