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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... Again. In Sad Cypress, Mrs. Agatha Christie deserts the fantastic settings which have added piquancy to her later stories, and re turns to a domestic atmosphere and to .Poirot. On the balance, we are the gainers. Mrs. Christie's skill is that of a con jurer ...
... 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 ...
... Dorothy Macardle. (Peter Duties 8s. (id.) Sunrise to Sunset. By Adrian Bell. (J phn Lane 8s. fill.) Towards Zero. By Agatha Christie. Collins ys. 0 d.) ...
... THIEVES. By George Beardmore. Macdonald 8s. 6d.) Macdonald 8s. 6d.) THE LABOURS OF HERCULES. THE LABOURS OF HERCULES. By Agatha Christie. (Collins Crime Club 8s. 6 d.) (Collins Crime Club 8s. 6 d.) ...
... By Anthony Quayle. Heinemann 8s. 6 d.) Miss Bunting. By Angela Thirkell. Hamish Hamilton 10s.) Sparkling Cyanide. By Agatha Christie. Collins 8s. 6 d.) This decorative portrait of LADY STANLEY OF ALDERLEY _ by Cathleen Mann Lady Queensberry) is on view ...