... cause this would be evidence of backward ness somewhere. He who runs now reads, and the cook's eye scans the plot of an Agatha Christie mystery novel while she makes an apple-tart perhaps not to its advantage. There are more, far more, readers than there ...

... Go She Must, by David Garxett. Ch and a, by Owen B u i tkr. The Elfa.r Book-Plate, by Agnes Miller. The Big Four, by Agatha Christie. Best sellers, as will be seen, come and go, but some go on longer than others, and indeed, at this hour, Beau Geste ...

... our firesides. I doubt whether either the crook or the detective spends his leisure in the study of Wallace, Cobb or Agatha Christie. HORRORS AND HUMOUR In Murder on Monday by Charles Barry, Larry Gil- martin did, but then Larry was an Irishman with a ...

... and Aristotle. Meanwhile, Mr. Lvtton Strachey and other empyrean arbiters of taste, rapaciously devour the thrillers of Agatha Christie and Edgar Wallace as fast as they are published, thus demon strating that the much-discussed swing-over of the sexes is ...

... Hermione Flatau's Drama in Mount Street is high in the second class of shockers. It cannot compete witli the real masters Agatha Christie and Co. but it avoids almost all the pitfalLs that beset their imitators. A million aire, of obscure origin and beastly ...

... Walshe. (Hutchinson, 7s. 6d.) Mixed Relations, by Victor L. Whitechurch. (Benn, 7s. 6d.) The Seven Dials Mystery, by Agatha Christie. (Collins, 7s. 6d.) THE BROTHERHOOD OF THE PEN 1 wo portraits, by Mrs. Blakeney Ward, President of the Society of Women ...