"The White Owl," by Edmund Snell, quivers with the literary hocus pocus that affords mental relief in a materialistic age. Two adventurers, searching for an Aztec temple containing a deity, which flourished before the Spanish conquistadores overran Mexico, find it, and on opening the covering of a shaft one of them is carried down into its fathomless depths by a huge white owl. There appears to the survivor a girl, Naia, who tells him that his friend will reappear after twenty moons. The White Owl having been released, the hatred of the Aztecs for their Spanish oppressors is renewed, and a series of murders of Spaniards in various places in Europe follows, the White Owl with hideous green eyes continually appearing when the mysterious influences are at work. The vanished explorer and the girl Naia are always the instruments.

THE BORDERLINE by Walter S. Masterman is a classic impossible mystery, sixth in the Dancing Tuatara Press series of obscure and hard-to-find titles. An introduction by John Pelan provides a solid background of the mysterious author and his books.

Trade paperback. THE NAKED TROCAR, Fender Tucker's first Knees Calhoon mysadventure, rips the lid off of Farmington New Mexico's sleazy mortuary bidness. THE BEST REVENGE is a sort-of western story about the area as it was in 1899.