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OUR BOOKSHELF: REVIEWED ON THIS PAGE; THE TRAVELLER'S EYE; ON SUCH A NIGHT; MISS PYM DISPOSES; DEAD MAN MURDER

... are plain as when they are coloured and she can build up a set of deceptive appearances as convincingly as does Mrs. Agatha Christie. Dead MAN MURDER.-- Although Papa Pontivy declared himself weary of German spies his admirers need not be anxious lest ...

Published: Wednesday 14 May 1947
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1605 | Page: 24 | Tags: Review 

OUR BOOKSHELF: OUR REVIEWER'S CHOICE; THE LOVED ONE; MR. HUFFAM AND OTHER STORIES; TAKEN AT THE FLOOD; TIME WAS ..

... Chapman and Hall 7s. 6 d.) MR. HUFFAM AND OTHER STORIES. By Hugh Walpole. (Macmillans 8s. 6 d.) TAKEN AT THE FLOOD. By Agatha Christie. Collins Crime Club 8s. 6 d.) TIME WAS AWAY. E 5y Alan Ross and John Minton. (i Lehmann 21s.) by young writers who wish ...

Published: Wednesday 22 December 1948
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1278 | Page: 16 | Tags: Review 

A DISAPPOINTING FORTNIGHT

... South of France we poor fish not even helped by a bit of fennel had not. Triple Bill consisted of an adaptation of an Agatha Christie short story which, if we remember aright, read better than it adapted a charming trifle of Irish non sense by Mr. Denis ...

Published: Wednesday 22 June 1949
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 978 | Page: 26 | Tags: Review 

CROOKED HOUSE

... CROOKED HOUSE. By Agatha Christie. (Collins Crime Club 8s. 6d.) IF I give a loud whoop! and say Good old Agatha Christie ! it must be understood that I use the adjective only as schoolboys and soldiers use it of their contempor- aries-- Old Tom, Old ...

Published: Wednesday 17 August 1949
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 290 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review 

THE THEATRE: CASTLE IN THE AIR

... Its cunning as a puzzle-play is the one thing to recommend this piece, adapted by Moie Charles and Barbara Toy from the Agatha Christie novel. True, there is some satisfactory acting by Barbara Mullen (local spinster) and Reginald Tate (local artist) but ...

Published: Wednesday 18 January 1950
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1078 | Page: 21 | Tags: Review 

A MURDER IS ANNOUNCED

... A MURDER IS ANNOUNCED. By Agatha Christie. (Collins 8s. 6 d.) YES, it 's a vintage Christie. Yes, the mur derer's identity remains unguessable to the end. Yes, there are clues and hints which make the reader curse his own stupidity in not perceiving who ...

Published: Wednesday 07 June 1950
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 311 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review 

THE HOLLOW

... and this one is by Agatha Christie, who knows her job to a hair. True, the first act worried me. It was clear enough that the too-amorous doctor would be murdered, and I waited anxiously for the shot. It did not come. Mrs. Christie left the man alive ...

Published: Wednesday 20 June 1951
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 234 | Page: 29 | Tags: Review 

Plans for the Future

... will register its 900th at the Vic toria Palace on September I, and Kiss Me, Kate its 200th at the Coliseum on August 30 Agatha Christie's The Hollow puts up the hundred at the Fortune on Sep tember 3. When A Midsummer Night's Dream ends at the Open Air Theatre ...

Published: Wednesday 29 August 1951
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 438 | Page: 29 | Tags: Review 

West End Favourites: WHO GOES THERE! (Duke of York's)

... (Fortune). If you have a feeling for the j anagram-ptay, I can recommend Agatha Christie's piece at the Fortune. It is quite unpreten tious but it ought to do what Mrs. Christie intended keep you guessing until nearly the end. I will say simply that an ...

Published: Wednesday 29 August 1951
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 427 | Page: 28 | Tags: Review 

Plans for the Future

... Lane on November I And This Was Odd is the title of the Ken neth Home light comedy for the Criterion on September 26. Agatha Christie's The Hollow, after record-breaking at the For tune, goes to the Ambassadors on October 8. Man and Superman ends at the ...

Published: Wednesday 26 September 1951
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 426 | Page: 33 | Tags: Review 

West End Favourites: THE HOLLOW

... with detec tion as a matter of course. To-day a puzzle-piece, a living anagram, is a rarity, but still a pleasure when Agatha Christie can handle it as she does in The Hollow. A doctor is murdered and not generally mourned. Beyond that I will say no more ...

Published: Wednesday 24 October 1951
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 426 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review