... deal in homicidal maniacs or confuse their pages with multiple murder. They may not reach the heights attained by Mrs. Agatha Christie or Miss Dorothy L. Sayers but they keep at least as high a level. Murder at Lilac Cottage is not quite John Rhode at his ...

... 75. (ui.) In the Fine Summer Weather. By Catharine Whitcomb. (('hallo atui Windus 7s. fv/.) Appointment With Death. Bv Agatha Christie. Collins 7 s. (ui.) MR. HARRY RICHMAN, airman and stage, screen and radio star, is entertaining croicds nightly at Ciro*s ...

... to-day his onslaught on murdher piays (with which I heartily agree) and his plea for symbolism as against realism. Mrs. Agatha Christie's latest volume, Murder Murder in|) in the Mews, contains four stories, all of which, the Mews. display her unique gift ...

... Yet The Man He Was is an interesting attempt, the work of a fertile but insufficiently disciplined imagination. M Mrs. Agatha Christie's detective stories have Murder ^s lately become so divorced from reality that their as?' final effect is one of fantasy ...

... Christopher Morlcy. (Faber attd Faber 6s.) The Young Revolutionist. By Pearl S. Buck. Methueu 3*. M Peril at End House. By Agatha Christie. Collins Js. 6 d.) What Dread Hand By Elizabeth Gill. (Cassell 7 s. Cpl.) ...

... By Sacheverell Sitwell. Batsford 21s.) Victorian Panorama. By Peter Quennell. Batsford ys. 6 d.) Death on the Nile. By Agatha Christie. (Collins ys. 6d.) The Pieces of a Fan. By Vincent Sheean. (Hamish Hamilton ys. fui.) MISS RUBY HENDERSON, who can claim ...

... the book is not Mrs. Christie at her best the central idea has many possibilities, and the final sur prise is well managed, but the whole thing is loose in texture. It never really grips. I longed for some variation in Mrs. Christie's types of young men ...

... easily be higher than it is. Everything is concentrated on construction it is assumed that the writing does not matter. Agatha Christie is an exception to this all-too-common rule. Her Secret of Chimneys (The Bodley Head 7s. 6d.) does not, of course, aim ...

... famous occasion, inserted a key speech. I can assure you at once that Mrs. Agatha Christie's play is nothing whatever like that. You would hardly expect it to be, and indeed Mrs. Christie would have scorned the simplicity of the earlier piece. Her Mouse trap ...

... (Fortune). If you have a feeling for the j anagram-ptay, I can recommend Agatha Christie's piece at the Fortune. It is quite unpreten tious but it ought to do what Mrs. Christie intended keep you guessing until nearly the end. I will say simply that an ...

... will register its 900th at the Vic toria Palace on September I, and Kiss Me, Kate its 200th at the Coliseum on August 30 Agatha Christie's The Hollow puts up the hundred at the Fortune on Sep tember 3. When A Midsummer Night's Dream ends at the Open Air Theatre ...

... Lane on November I And This Was Odd is the title of the Ken neth Home light comedy for the Criterion on September 26. Agatha Christie's The Hollow, after record-breaking at the For tune, goes to the Ambassadors on October 8. Man and Superman ends at the ...