MURPHY, DENNIS. _The Sergeant._ Viking 1958, pbr Crest 1959, (m). MURRAY, WILLIAM. _The Fugitive Romans._ pbo, Popular Library 1955. Brief variant episode among a Hollywood location crew abroad. NEILSEN, HELEN. _The Fifth Caller._ Morrow, 1959. Dr. Lillian Whitehall, metaphysician, is murdered; as each of her five callers is interviewed to find the guilty party, it develops that the dead woman was a cruel, domineering repressed lesbian. Well written, though unsympathetic. NEFF, WANDA FRAIKEN. _We Sing Diana._ Boston, Houghton 1928. Story of a girl too inhibited to face her own nature. NILES, BLAIR. _Strange Brother._ N. Y. Liveright 1931, pbr Harris Publications 1949, pbr Avon 1952, 1958, 1959. NIN, ANAIS. _Winter of Artifice._ Paris, Obelisk Press 1939, also in _Under a Glass Bell_, Dutton, 1948. The first edition has 100 pages or so, not included in later editions, in which she recounts her liaison with a famous American writer and his wife, all disguised, of course. (All of this writer’s work seems to be vaguely tinged with variance.) _Ladders to Fire._ Dutton, 1945, 1946. NORDAY, MICHAEL. _Stage for Fools._ Vixen Press 1955. pbr tct _Strange Thirsts_, Beacon 1959. Evening waster about a lush actress making a comeback on a college campus, who revenges herself on an indifferent male by entrapping his girl into a drunken lesbian episode and inviting him to watch the show. A shocker. _Warped._ Beacon pbo 1955, 1960. Very apt title; evening waster about a crooked fight game. One sympathetically portrayed lesbian character in the many mixed affairs. NORMANDIE, ROGER. _The Lion’s Den._ N. Y., Key 1957. scv. + O’BRIEN, KATE. _As Music and Splendor._ Harper. 1958. Novel of two very different young Irish girls sent to study music on the Continent during the great age of Italian opera; their personal lives differ as widely as their careers. One, Clare Halvey, drifts into a love affair with Luisa Carriaga, a Spanish contralto; their relationship is treated delicately, but with warmth and impersonal sympathy. Excellent for opera lovers and for those who are tired to death of books where every last detail is spelled out as frankly as the law allows. + O’DONOVAN, JOAN. _Dangerous Worlds._ Morrow, 1958. Collection of excellent short stories. O’HIGGINS, HARVEY. _The Story of Julie Cane._ Harper, 1924. Explicit, for its day, story of an intense relationship between a schoolmistress and her ward. OLIVIA (see DOROTHY BUSSY). O’NEILL, ROSE. _The Goblin Woman._ N. Y. Doubleday 1930. Fey, symbolic novel of Helga, the Goblin Woman (who represents purity) set down in a society far from pure. There are many lesbian episodes and references to inter-feminine love. (see poetry supplement.)