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... formation which usually irritates are informative and helpful, and the production of the book pleasing to the eye. Miss Agatha Christie is right back in her best form with THE HOLLOW (Crime Club. 8s. 6d.), which concerns both a murder and a mystery. I know ...
... technical, and one of them, rather surprisingly, of a dentist's chair, are an adequate addition added to his work. Mrs. Agatha Christie deserves all the admira tion that an appreciative public can show a really fine craftsman. In book after book, and I believe ...
... 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 ...
... Raleigh, and provides a peaceful con trast to the atmosphere of violence in which Agatha Christie surrounds so many of her heroes and villains AT THEIR DEVON HOME Agatha Christie, the prolific writer of thrillers, and her hus band, Max Mallowan, the archaeologist ...
... 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 ...
... describes, but also for the fine portrait it gives of a woman worth her salt. There is no getting away from it, Mrs. Agatha Christie is a master or perhaps I ought to say, a mistress of her craft. One would have thought that by now the detective-story ...
... ending in a cannibal stew-pot is still a distinct possibility. Another unusual travel-book comes from Agatha Christie Mallowan, better known as Agatha Christie, who in COME, TELL ME HOW YOU LIVE (Collins. 10s. 6d.) gives a racy account of her life in Syria ...
... funny lines will be likely to redeem the evening from failure. There are no funny lines in Arnold Ridley's adaptation of Agatha Christie's Peril at End House, and the characters have about as much character as a charac ter written by an old mistress for a ...
... 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 ...