... 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 ...

... POIROT INVESTIGATES. By Agatha Christie. (The Bodlev Head 7s. 6d.l POIROT INVESTIGATES. By Agatha Christie. (The Bodley Head 7s. 6d.) Natty, companionable, acute M. Poirot needs no introduction to readers of The Sketch, where he has made so many happy ...

... citizens. THE HOLLOW new -Agatha Christie just before Christmas is _ a godsend to harassed present-hunters and who- By Agatha Christie. TI ever gives or receives a copy of The Hollow will have every reason to feel satisfied. Mrs. Christie is ...

... 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 ...

... might say and what remains with us is just the vision that inspired the author the passing of a beautiful house. n Mrs. Agatha Christie is subject to the danger that llie Danger besets a]j writers of detective stories the danger of Sen y- using human beings ...

... in that bright, clever, jolly style which you associate with the name of Agatha Christie, especially if you are a reader of this journal. But be on your guard. When Miss Christie is going to be most thrilling, she tries to disarm you by being at her most ...

... still more impressive exhibition of the author's powers only then it would have been a different book. Aeatha Christie Whether Mrs. Agatha Christie is the best detective- story writer we have is a moot point but she is certainly the most versatile and among ...

... asylum, he will get many a good laugh from it. In any case, he will find it enthralling. A new detective story by Mrs. Agatha Christie Lord js aiwayS a delight, for at her poorest she com- Edgware pares favourably with most of her rivals at their best ...

... protest, does not bear much relation to the everyday world. No reader of detective stories can afford to miss a book by Agatha Christie no one can fail to be astonished by the ingenuity of Ten Little Niggers. One cannot avoid the fear that the author s ...

... most conventional kind. Of all the practitioners of the detective story, none has so many strings to her bow as Mrs. Agatha Christie. She, too, binds herself by conventions, but often they are conventions that she herself creates, and are rarely twice ...

... con cludes all help to emphasise it. Hercule Poirot's Christmas. Criticised for making her murders too anaemic, Mrs. Agatha Christie has accepted the challenge. When old Simeon Lee is found dead on Christ mas Eve there is so much blood spilt all round ...

... 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 ...