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LITERARY NOTEŠ..

THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, MARCH 4, 1935

RECENT WORKS OF FICTION

SOME SPLENDID

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HODDER AND STOUGHTON'S LATEST LIST

THE SPY PARAMOUNT

BY E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM

Colonel Fawley, ostensibly work- ing for a foreign European Power,; was engaged in a larger enterprise than the foreign capionage system of one country could embrace...

There is more than a hint of the. "topical situation in his imbroglio concerning the crowns of kings. and the ambitions of dictators.

Mr. Oppenheim is the Reklus Professor of Diplomacy. THE SAINT IN NEW YORK BY LESLIE CHARTERIS

When William K. Valeroas, the American millionaire, Introduced himself to the Saint in Madrid and offered him all his expenses and million dollars in eash if he could!) bring to justice the men who 'kid- napped, and killed his son, Simon Templar took up the commission with the same light-hearted con fidence as he had tackled "every other adventure in his gay and law. less career.

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It was not until he was up above, the eyes in a peculiarly perilous system of trouble that he realised exactly how much he had taken on.

Wall

ST.LOUIS

“MISSOURI

POPLAR BLUFF

ARKANSAS

TENNESSEE

CKSON

MEMPHIS

DUNDEE

MARKS

CLAR

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MISSISSIPPL

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The melting of heavy snows last month, unusual in the lower Mississippi Valley,, welled the "Father of Waters" to unusual hulghts and claimed new victims hourly as thousands were forced from their homes by, the rising waters in the areas shown in the map. Typical of hundreds of famt- lies in the environs of Marks, Miss, is this group shown with all the possessions they had left after the raging current forced them to flee,,

between

Read in this fifteenth volume of ing and eavesdropping at Staneshy,

tion to keep up: and with the peep-THE STRANGE BOARDERS OF woman; and O'Connor, the Liver- Simon Templar's exploits about the she could ill afford to be seen with BY E, PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM

PALACE CRESCENT

pool-Irish bucko" Mate. And passing of Morrie Ualino, Beau her Communiat brother, and high-

finally, there is Mr. Feng, controller Brummel of racketeers; of the tak spirited sister and

of the destinies of the Tsien Fu. ing off of a certain. Mr. Papulos; father: still less was it safe to go Dewar's Palace Crescent Boarding are ready to play their parts:-and funny old When Roger took a room at Mrs. The stage is set: the characters: of Dutch Kuhlmanu, who wert out with attractive, unhappy Archie House he looked for the most be anything can when he sentenced men to murder: Finniard, the colliery

happen manager could get for the smallest amount Macassar and Shanghai. of how Simon Templar was taken from the other end of the town. for a ride; of the mysterious Fay

of money and he did not ask ques- PETER IN PERIL Edwards, and the unknown Big battle: and--since Arthur Gale was that things at Palace Crescent in- Yet the young wife won her tions. Soon, however, he found Fellow for whom gunmen died human after all-ahe won it at the trigued him in spite of himself without question: and meet the side of the young Headmaster of He wondered about the strict rule 'Saint again. at his most reckless Stanesby.

of the keys.

and dangerous in the highways of A STAR IN LOVE Budden death.

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I'LL BLACKMAIL THE WORLD

BY S, ANDREW WOOD

BY BERTA RUCK

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BY VICTOR BRIDGES

"Peter in Peril is the finest yarn Victor Bridges has written. In He wondered when view of the popularity of "The Man he found Joseph, the butler, lying from Nowhere," "Greensea Island," on a mattress by the back door with and some of his other books, this a revolver by his side, especially may sound a bold statement. But What happens when wholesome, when one of the boarders was found to those who enjoy. Here is an unusual adventure to live without love? If you were housel He wondered at the strange acter drawing, a sense of humour warm-hearted, normal natures try shot a little distance from the thriller, blended with good char- Arst-class thriller, packed with excitement a gifted young stage star who had and tense moments. John Kingdom. been warned "falling in love is the telephone call that obviously frigh- and a delightful love story, "Peter a millionaire scientist, decides that thing that will dilute your ambi-Dewer. And he wondered the Governments of the World need tlon, spoil your work, crab you more when the police asked ques- BY PATRICIA WENTWORTH

tened that enfematic person. Mrs. in Peril" will be sheer joy a lesson on the horror of future career.".

Atill RED STEFAN warfare, and proceeds to rain death;

tions, and destruction

If you had made one success,

from the air on were at the cross reade, and might| CHECKERED PATHS London, Paris, Berlin and Rome. (a) go on to 'create a big name, or BY MARGARET PEDLER He succeeds! The Governments of (b) decline into third-class touring the World sign a Peace Pact which companies.....If you received two they intend to keep!

SHE FELL AMONG THIEVES

BY DORNEORD YATES

Who was Red Stefan?

He put his life into Elizabeth's hands when he told her. How they met besidel mystery, she the desperate young Margaret Pedler has not only &widow of an American-Rusulan offers: the star part of Muricpecial gift for dealing with those engineer: how she passed Antoinette in a play by an un-ittle miscalculations to which hu-Stefan's wife, was suspected, arrest- known genius which might put man nature is fable, but also aled, rescued; how she thought her-

In this book Mr. Yates breaks London at your feet (though, on the very neat method of "turning the self betrayed, and in the end won ground which he has not broken other hand, it might run for two clouds about to show the lining through adventure to freedom, will before, for the outstanding figure night only), or, the secondary part In her new book she has written prove to be a most thrilling of the tale ls the villainess of the in a stereotyped "box-afice cer- of Felicity Deane stepping down romance, piece. As some monstrous solitaire talny" by a popular dramatist. quietly into. the twilight of middle,

diamond diminishes other gems, an How would you re-act? that cold and terrible brilliance of "Vanity Fair'

age; of the wife who cannot find ADAM'S DAUGHTER

Jane Richards' problem is set in what she seeks within the four BY ROBERT H. HILL dominates every the London of her stage life, Wales walls of her home; of the big. This is a first novel of unusual scene in which she appears, of her home life, and "on location" dominating man whose temper flability and an integrity of outlook

There is no deception about her. in the Austrian Tyrol where she unleashed; of the beautiful woman

that commands She likes

attention. By Richard Chandos and takes part in a film that is shown who sets to work to conquer the temperament Adam Leyland was a says so she concerns herself for in the making on the shores of a antagonism of her husband's peo

lover of country-solitudes, but dis- his comfort and makes the most of mountain lake, and where in real ple; and of a host of othergone satisfaction with the existing order his life which she has arranged to life she finds pitted against her the being faced have taken in two hours' time. She forces of Nature, Ambilion, Danger suspicion, another determined at revolution. The huger-march he compels a dreadful admiration and and Love.

is perhaps most dazzling In the WREXHAM'S ROMANCE

hour of defeat.

The two men sent to report on

with fary and drove him to become a leader of

keep a beautiful had organised grew into civil war, and the flames of revolution lie up dark corners in many hearts,

all costs to memory untarnished. DISASTER ISLAND

BY GANPAT

roBY RUSSELL A. BANKSON

at

In those critical days, Adam and many other learned to know them- selves more truly. Janet Leyland,

thecated by love, sought, for some way

her activities find themselves carmance, "Harilek," attracted will

Those whom Ganpat's first ried away by the torrent they have read with delight the story come to inspect.

In attempting & obtain control for whom the problem was compll- By stumbling Wrexham, the engineer, who, with of Disaster Telaud Ranch, in upon her great secret they put in Harry Lake and Alec Forsyth, Crazy Horse, desert, old Hell Fire of reconciling the new world which peril a life far more precious than crossed the Central Asian deserts Renton is murdered, but his grand- her father foretold with the old theirs, and their desperate fight to and discovered the hill-locked coun-son, Jeff Denton, comes from New world they both loved, and in doing confound the enemy's intentions try of Sakaeland. and yet remain unsuspected within

York to avenge the murder. her gates makes as exciting reading write one story

"Every one has it in him to Jeff is soon involved in fierce herself.

so she, too, came to understand as anyone could demand.

... their own re-fighting against a gang of gunmen "She Fell Among Thieves" is he opens his narrative, and he cer of the island, but with the aid or BY FRANCIS BEEDING"

mance," is the phrase with which who are trying to obtain possession DEATH IN FOUR LETTERS

acenes,

BY R. J. WHITE

ion

simply told in the first person, Stainly proves his dictum. that whoever reads it moves, so tog as attractive à romance as was Ranch, and after many exciting Worplesfield golf links. The only

His tale Jim Henderson, Foreman of the An aeroplane crashes speak, with Chandos, behind the Harilek's, but far more swift mov- adventures he succeeds in defeating person at hand is FX.D., a fourn

Ing. THE YOUNG WIFE'S PROGRESS wider, since he shows us not only Disaster Island; and in winning senger unconscious. Papers in the His canvas is, moreover, the gunmen and bringing peace to alist. The pilot is dead, the pas the mediaeval civilisation that himself a wife, Clever, ambitious, honest Arthur "Harilek portrayed, but he takes In Disaster Island" Russell & well-known, newspaper, proprie ...passenger's pocket show him to be Gale was bound to be famous. From us into the very different atmos Bankson has written a "Westerner tor; but they show top that be- State-aided school to classics-mas-phere of the wilder portions of the that is full of thrills and excite the great patriot and publicist-la ter at a Public School, then pro-country, among the untamed tribes ment from the word "go.". moted 'Second, Master and finally with their picturesque legends and

fatimately connected with a secret "Head of Stanesby." Yes, Arthur custome, v

international syndicate for the sale, Gale always succeeded, and Mary,

of arms and munitions. It is the story of men seeking to BY BYDNEY PARKMAN his wife, starting as "nobody's bring peace to warring clans; the

FX.D. determines to defeat the wife," became "somebody's wife," main theme is the conflict of those north for the Chiun coast, the work of danger and intrigue, cul- Out from the Celebes, bound ands himself involved in a net aims of the syndicate, and at once and finally "Caesar's wife." who follow the Sword God with

But at what a cost! No longer those who worship the Goddess of way through the little-known seas Tsien Fu ploughs her leisurely the old care-free Jife back in the Peace, in which a woman's wit enthedral town in the Eastern finally swings the balance in the Aboard her is Derek Bentley

of the Sulu Archipelago, Counties. Now she had a rèputa Goddess' favour. It is not only

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