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... 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 ...
... AN AGATHA CHRISTII VIONTH IN THE THEATRE Witness for the Prosecution Second Year of Trial WE are here, as a chairman would say, to celebrate a theatrical occasion. Mrs. Agatha Christie, queen of the puzzle-play, has now claimed three West End theatres ...
... 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 ...
... in that bright, clever, jolly style which you associate with the name of Agatha Christie, especially if you are a reader of this journal. But be on your guard. When Miss Christie is going to be most thrilling, she tries to disarm you by being at her most ...
... 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 ...
... asylum, he will get many a good laugh from it. In any case, he will find it enthralling. A new detective story by Mrs. Agatha Christie Lord js aiwayS a delight, for at her poorest she com- Edgware pares favourably with most of her rivals at their best ...
... TVINING with Sir Edward and Lady Keeling the other day our fellow-guests included Miss Agatha Christie and her husband, Mr. H. E. L. Hallowan. Being an Agatha Christie fan, I asked her the inevitable question, of which she must get so tired, as to whether ...
... protest, does not bear much relation to the everyday world. No reader of detective stories can afford to miss a book by Agatha Christie no one can fail to be astonished by the ingenuity of Ten Little Niggers. One cannot avoid the fear that the author s ...
... 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 ...
... con cludes all help to emphasise it. Hercule Poirot's Christmas. Criticised for making her murders too anaemic, Mrs. Agatha Christie has accepted the challenge. When old Simeon Lee is found dead on Christ mas Eve there is so much blood spilt all round ...
... -we have such strangely-assorted, and successful, writers as Graham Greene, Robert Bolt, Benn W. Levy, John Osborne, Agatha Christie, Emlyn Williams, N. C. Hunter, Lesley Storm, and Ronald Millar. An unfamiliar Ustinov has just been done at Oxford, and ...