... long pull at the neat spirit he felt much better. There must, he decided, be some way out some way of making this crime, which was no crime, appear an accident. He looked round the room. Over there was the window. If he opened it and pushed Southrop out ...

... considerations? In the matter of Heath, everyone (except perhaps the defendant himself) was agreed on the enormities of his crime. Two Qualifications Tn the case of the Nuremberg criminals, though each one of them had obviously inflicted upon the world ...

... scenery and costumes are by Roger Furse Margaret Leighton as Regan, the second of King Lear's ungrateful daughters. Among her crimes are the driving of her old father from her home and the gouging out of Gloucester's eyes. Eventually she meets her death by ...

... that, though recommended by every consider ation of convenience, unfortunately happen to be crimes, and our modern civili sation has become so fussy about crimes that very few of them are easy to commit. Having just paid my income tax, I see every reason ...

... last act is a very real one. Shall she let the secrets of her heart be exposed in court to explain her otherwise inexplicable crime, or shall she offer no defence and take the risk of being sent to prison? Shall she protect herself and her husband from a ...

... coven. Every British seaside resort has its special type of crime, moreover. Brighton boasts of its trunk-murders, at Eastbourne ladies are carved up small in bungalows, and Whitby exults in crimes against Art and humanity simultaneously, since most of the ...

... court, hit her for six. He has raised the fanatic to the rank of Public Enemy No i Crime and Punishment. The first trials of war criminals on the scene of their crimes ended in conviction of, and the death sentence on, all the accused. Human memory was ...

... of the current crime-fiction boys are now padding out their stuff to absurd lengths with flafla and poodle-pie, a critic claims this is a sign they are becoming written out, or in other words palsied. This may be so, for no good crime-story needs a lot ...

... to accuracy the modern novelist is more to be commended than the Victorians. The fashion in crime fiction has made woman novelists -who specialise in crime law-court-minded. Mary Borden, Dorothy Sayers and their sister hood seldom go astray in such details ...

... four- fifths of current crime fiction. As usual, the characterisation is adequate but not profound, the situations are tense but not melodramatic, the story moves fast but not with the jet- propelled speed of much American crime fiction. The mystery, in ...

... the notioi that murder can be a crime if it is done by a w man kind enough to present the parish with a s aside holiday home. In sum, an entertainmer i re markably many-sided in its appeal. It is a chronicle of crime; it states a case of consc nee; it ...

... issue. The gentle old lady who is Miss Margery Sharp's heroine, demands and receives the punishment that exactly fits her crime. But what on earth can that punishment possibly be? For, unlike most gentle old ladies of the modern stage, she is not a murderess ...