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"MASTERS OF MYSTERY." By H. Douglas Thomson, Collins. 125. Gj.
Take off the paper wrapper, and alter the title, and you will find here a very useful and interesting book writes E. Kellelt in the News Chronicle.
The wrapper is a nightmaro-film, made up of four or five differunt pieturre, the most striking rogis tering the emotions of three mon inspecting a corpse.
All this sets you against Mr. Thomson's work; and it speaks well for him that a fow pages of his text go far to dispel the unnecessary prejudice which these outsida aderaments have aroused.
The book contains a very good www the direct result of the world summary of the history of the de- depression which could not end un-tective novel in England, France til the nations banished their
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THE DETECTIVE STORY.
spicuous in a short story than in a full-length novel. For example, the irritating habit of using Frenchi words muid phrases—a habit agree- ally satirised by Stephen Leacock
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However, we are glad to meet Peter THE Undersigned have received course, misled the reader, and this Jackson again in the three first, is think, not quite fair.
Nood for a Corpas. Ingreo again with Mr. Thomson that the crime should he murder, with a real corpse. To betray UK, BB Father Knox does in the 'Font
steps at the Lock," is not playing the game. You want a murder, or you may sympathise with the cri- minal; and you want somebody to bo murdored. You also have a right to demand that the person murdered should be a decent char. aeter, and not somebody whom the world is woll rid of.
I hops I shall not be accused of "highbrowiam" if I add that, while a detective novel should have
balance, style, characterisation, sound psychology, and all the sin- and America, as well as a veryments of good navels of other good analysis of the desirable in- gredients in this genre of litera- ture.
Works of Art?
For there is no reason why the detective novel should not be literature. A good writer will
theme whatever
ho write well chooses, and many writers of do- teclive stories unquestionably do write well. If, as many do, they add to this a mastery in the tech- n:quo of the story, they may pro- duce a first-rate work of art, worthy to be compared with any other
such work.
There is no justification whatever for the contempt which even now some people express for this kind
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kinds, the essential thing is the reasoning. The frills and embroi- deries are too often annoying
excrescen oca.
From Poe to Spilsbury. It is on this ground that 1.still rut. "Marie Roget" at the very bead of its whole class, and this
though its style is the style of the forties, cumbrous and congested. That Dupin is a lay: figure in to ma a secondary consideration, and nutters no more than the dimness of Euclid's personality to my sp preciation of Euclid's logic. Sher- lock Holmes is equally impersonal; that we think we know him is due, I believe, to the "Strand" illustrá-
and to find that the mare he changes the more he is the same old sentimentalist, All the other seventeen stories are entertaining, hut wo like best those in which Kyra Sokratesco appears and pro-
herself as subtle and far-seeing
na Sherlock Holmes at his best.
"Misogyny at Mougyns" is an original kind of thriller, a tabloid mystery novel in which the atmos phere of the "unco" is an cleverly indicated as in R. L. Stevenson's masterpieces in that mode. Mr. Frankau's favourites, he tells us, are the first of the collection.
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is an exercise of ingenuity on the part both of the writer and of the ronder; and the ingenuity may at
times transcend more cleverness and become real talent,
Recently, of course, this class of book has had un extraordinary vogue and the eritics have been busy disctimsing its strong points and its limitations. Miss Dorothy of the best Sayers, herself one practitioners of the craft, has laid down some of the principles on which the craftsman should work; and Mr. Chesterton has entered & few obiter dieta on the same theme.
No Need for Love. Everyone will have his own taste, For myself, one reason why I like the detective-novel is that there need be no love in it, and that the love is there you can skip it as unimportant to the plot. The stage Sherlock, who is more or less en amoured of the stepdaughter of Dr. Crimesby Rylott, af Stoke Moran, is to me a repulsive crenture, and the detective who marries the girl le has once had under suspicion is
WCTBC.
But I have other conventions, Jens prejudiced porhape, than this, First and foremost, there must be no cheating. The murderer must net turn out to be somebody you have never heard of, or one who, by the laws of physical nature, cannot have committed the crime without gross violations of pro- bability. You ought to have the chance of guessing the solution after the first fifty or sixty pagós, and to feel a trifle ashamed of yourself if, when you reach the end, you find you have missed the clue.
What Poiroi Saw,
Similar
his deductions are now and then of the highest order. praise can be given to the stories of Austin Freeman, in which Dr. Thorndyke works out his results with the remorseless accuracy of Sr Bornard Spilsbury.
"If this is not the way detection is done, it is at any rate the way it ought to be done."
I read those storica,
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rcome tiresomely insistent. the whole point of a fairy story is the miracle at the end, and it is hardly to be supposed that any of the old favourites will be dis- placed from their pedestals by this modern wizardry.
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THE PACIFIC. By Stanley Rogers.
Harraps. 78. 6d. net. Following on "The Atlantic," "Ships and Sailors," and other tales of the sea, Mr. Rogers ha here made n book on the Pacific, illustrating it. as before, with his own accomplished pencil. Some of the plums of the inject had been extracted in his earlier volumes, ut enough remains, of shipwreck privateors and and adventuro pirates, Yankes whalemen and The doctor. states. that the opera- Californian clippers, and the vant tion is long overdue. It has been blend of fact and fancy which the postponed several times owing to name Polynesia suggests, to furnish pressure of film engagements.
a work of rich entertainment. What gives it character is the author's love of the sun and ships. As a boy in the late 'Ninetios he was taken on board windjammers in the Puget Sound by his father, who had business with the cantains, and some of the early fascination of thens bearded seamen, who hail come from places, as distant as the ends of the rainbow, has passed. into this, experienced book on the Pacific.
RED DESERT.
"HED DESERT." By Harry Edmonds.
(Ward Lock, 7a. Od.) Agadir, the European crisis of 1011, and the German bid for power in the East are a long way off so much water has flowed under the bridge since then that it is greatly to Mr. Edmonds's credit that he should have written a thrilling story with these happenings as background,
It is for this reason that I put the British Navy, arrives at a Ronnie Vigers, a young officer in
Agatha Christie's "Roger Ackroyd French part in Arabia with › in--- very high in my list. The eluonstructions to "keep his eyes open are there, and you feel at the and his mouth shut-something is bound to turn un." The prophecy finish that what Poirot saw you proved true. The first people to ought to have seen-The-same-is-turn-up where Jacdijeline, the the case with "Silver Blaze." The colonel, and her brother Paul a charming daughter of a French curried mutton and the silent dog dashing French cavalry officer, Thon ought to set the reader, as they set there as Ibn el Marnak, an Arab Sherlock Holmes, at once on the Chief, and the villain of the piece. right track. Several of Mr. Wills Sinister German designs and the lure of oilfields in the Syrian de- Croft's stories, also are to mo eminently satisfactory in this res- sert play their part in this story, pect; and one or two of Carolyn but it is not an ordinary. "romance Wales's-which, curiously enough, f the desert," for there is a spice Mr. Thomson does not mention of humour and a tragic ending. tonform to this rule,
On the other hand, the face that no care or though on the reador's -part would enable him to discover the final solution of "Trent's Last Case" is, to me at least a rious deduction from the merits of that most admirable story." Tho", clues that have mialed Trent have, ofi
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