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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 ...
... 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 ...
... and this one is by Agatha Christie, who knows her job to a hair. True, the first act worried me. It was clear enough that the too-amorous doctor would be murdered, and I waited anxiously for the shot. It did not come. Mrs. Christie left the man alive ...
... only writer of genius. One of the qualities of genius is that it demands co-operation; you can lose your place in an Agatha Christie and it doesn't matter, but Mr. Golding's books, The Lord of the Flies, The Inheritors and now Pincher Martin are not just ...
... A MURDER IS ANNOUNCED. By Agatha Christie. (Collins 8s. 6 d.) YES, it 's a vintage Christie. Yes, the mur derer's identity remains unguessable to the end. Yes, there are clues and hints which make the reader curse his own stupidity in not perceiving who ...
... ESTUARY. By Henry Williamson. Macdonald 12s. 6d.) PATIENCE. By John Coates. Collancz 10s. 6d.) AFTER THE FUNERAL. By Agatha Christie. (Collins 10 s. 6 d.) MERLIN'S FURLONG. By Gladys Mitchell. Michael Joseph 10s. 6 d.) by Rupert Croft-Cooke A FIRST look ...
... with detec tion as a matter of course. To-day a puzzle-piece, a living anagram, is a rarity, but still a pleasure when Agatha Christie can handle it as she does in The Hollow. A doctor is murdered and not generally mourned. Beyond that I will say no more ...
... 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 ...
... Prosecution Mr. and Mrs. Charles Laughton amuse themselves and others in a sharp Old Bailey thriller from the play by Agatha Christie. Blue Murder at St. Trinian's The ghastly girls are picked to represent the flower of British maidenhood on a coach tour ...
... 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 ...
... SILKY. By Elizabeth Coatsworth. (Victor Gollancz 10s. 6 d.) A POCKET FULL OF RYE. By Agatha Christie. Collins 10s. 6 d.) COCKNEY CATS. By Warren Tute and Felix Fonteyn (Museum Press 10s. 6 d.) Reviewed by G. B. Stern SILKY is neither a fantasy nor a spook ...
... notably unpleasant man to give away any relevant fact. For J those who enjoy an evening with an animated crossword-puzzle, Agatha Christie is the author, and the Ambas- sadors cast is the best of company let J me mention Jeanne de Casalis, Jessica Spencer and ...