... deal in homicidal maniacs or confuse their pages with multiple murder. They may not reach the heights attained by Mrs. Agatha Christie or Miss Dorothy L. Sayers but they keep at least as high a level. Murder at Lilac Cottage is not quite John Rhode at his ...

... 75. (ui.) In the Fine Summer Weather. By Catharine Whitcomb. (('hallo atui Windus 7s. fv/.) Appointment With Death. Bv Agatha Christie. Collins 7 s. (ui.) MR. HARRY RICHMAN, airman and stage, screen and radio star, is entertaining croicds nightly at Ciro*s ...

... to-day his onslaught on murdher piays (with which I heartily agree) and his plea for symbolism as against realism. Mrs. Agatha Christie's latest volume, Murder Murder in|) in the Mews, contains four stories, all of which, the Mews. display her unique gift ...

... Yet The Man He Was is an interesting attempt, the work of a fertile but insufficiently disciplined imagination. M Mrs. Agatha Christie's detective stories have Murder ^s lately become so divorced from reality that their as?' final effect is one of fantasy ...

... Christopher Morlcy. (Faber attd Faber 6s.) The Young Revolutionist. By Pearl S. Buck. Methueu 3*. M Peril at End House. By Agatha Christie. Collins Js. 6 d.) What Dread Hand By Elizabeth Gill. (Cassell 7 s. Cpl.) ...

... By Sacheverell Sitwell. Batsford 21s.) Victorian Panorama. By Peter Quennell. Batsford ys. 6 d.) Death on the Nile. By Agatha Christie. (Collins ys. 6d.) The Pieces of a Fan. By Vincent Sheean. (Hamish Hamilton ys. fui.) MISS RUBY HENDERSON, who can claim ...

... the book is not Mrs. Christie at her best the central idea has many possibilities, and the final sur prise is well managed, but the whole thing is loose in texture. It never really grips. I longed for some variation in Mrs. Christie's types of young men ...

... easily be higher than it is. Everything is concentrated on construction it is assumed that the writing does not matter. Agatha Christie is an exception to this all-too-common rule. Her Secret of Chimneys (The Bodley Head 7s. 6d.) does not, of course, aim ...

... Quartermaine. 44 MR. BOLFRY 44 (Playhouse). New James Bridie play. Alastair Sim. 44 TEN LITTLE NIGGERS 44 (St. James's). Agatha Christie's thriller. Linden Travers, Allan Jeayes, Terence de Marney. 44 ACACIA AVENUE (Vaudeville). Comedy. Gordon Harker, Hubert ...

... ine. SIX PAIRS OF SHOES44 (Playhouse). Harry Roy and band in a cabaret story. 44 TEN LITTLE NIGGERS 44 (Cambridge). Agatha Christie's thriller. Linden Travers, Allan Jeayes, Terence de Marney. 44 THE LOVE RACKET 44 (Prince's). High-speed musical with ...

... Banks, Leon Quartermaine. MR. BOLFRY (Playhouse). New James Bridie play. Alastair Sim. TEN LITTLE NIGGERS (St. James's). Agatha Christie's thriller. Linden Travers, Allan Jcayes, Terence de Marnev. ACACIA AVENUE (Vaudeville). Comedy. Gordon Harker, Hubert ...

... about wartime, and truthfully reflects the condition in which we all, more or less, find ourselves. The action of Mrs. Agatha Christie's new Nursery Khyme detective story_ Que, Two, Buckle My Shoe, ,a takes place in a rather anomalous and uneasy Detective ...