Experiment Perilous

DR. BAILEY’S casual attention to his birdlike plane and train companion, Miss Clarissa Bederaux, landed him in a pretty pickle. Successively amused, annoyed, interested, disturbed, he was hopelessly involved with the Bederaux family before he saw the maze into which he had strolled. The reader shares Dr. Bailey’s doubts and fears and his growing sense of oppression over the inmates of the fantastic house on East 37th Street. If he also shares the good doctor’s confusion toward the end, he can reflect that this is the first novel by a promising author of psychological thrillers,