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What Happened To 10 Legatees

THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 1936

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THE CLUBFOOT

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Famous Stories In Collected Form

NEW CLUBFOOT NOVEL

Valentine Williams' Spy Story

A NEW SAINT"" NOVEL

Simon Templar Returns In Good Story

The Clubfoot Omnibus, by Valen-The Spider's Touch, by Valentine Thieves"

tine Williams

Williams.

Picnic, by Leslie Charteris. At last Valentine Williams' "The Spider's Touch" is a spr Simon Templar, who was called famous spy takes his place in the story-but it is much more than the Saint. had bought tickets in Hodder and Stoughton Omnibus that. For the author is Valen-jthe Spanish Christmas Lottery Series. In "The Clubfoot Omni-tine Williams, the scene is Europe, himself, but he had never really bus" are included the following jand the spy is Clubfoot: redoubt-believed that anyone could win a stories of the best-known foreign able as ever and (now that his first prize which totalled £400,000 spy in modern action: "The Man imperial master is in retirément)—until he in.rvened in his with the Clubfoot", "The Return playing his own game and selling happy-go-lucky way in what first of Clubfoot.” "The Crouching his secrets to the highest bidder-locked like an ordinary roadside Beast" and "The Gold Comfit A profitable game, too, until he brawl in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Box.

stole the secret documents which and found himself caught up in a There is also a special intro- had been entrusted to the keeping murderous fend for the posses- duction about Clubfoot by Valen-(of young Fane.

sion of one of those amazing tine Williams n the course of Yet how could even a master (scraps of paper. it the author writes: "If the way spy have guessed that Patricia

For a Spanish lottery ticket is of the transgressor is hard for Fane would take up her brother's's bearer bond of the most com- the purpose of fiction it is inecom-cause and bring into the chase prehensive and undiscriminating parably better value than the way four men, each of whom had kind in the world, the only legal of the just" And so say all of sworn to finish Clubfoot's career? claim under heaven to any prize -at any rate, when the trans-They, at any rate, were worthy which it may draw. There were gressor is "old Clubfoot”

opponents of the most famous others who had realised the same foreign spy in modern fiction. thing: the effeminate and nasty: Reuben Graner, the slender and| natty Art Palermo, the old-school- tie Cecil Alston, the big and sur- ly Edmund Lander, Poris Vanlin- den, the diamond cutter, who had first owned the ticket, and his daughter Christine...

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How the Saint plunged into the: Escramble, with the kind-hearted In "Housemaster" Ian Hay goes back to one

out ivory-skalled Hoppy Uniatz at of his favourite Why were the Chinese Cheng his side, and what came of it, is themes, Age and Youth, as con-and the American Humberstone related in one of the most hilari trasted in a story of school life, such allies, and what was the myous and breathless adventures of The Housemaster in question is a stery behind that sinister little that inimitable, Robin Hood middle-aged bachelor. You might cafe in Nice known as the "Cafe modern crime. call him old-fashioned, but the des Oiseaux Noirs?" Many people Curious Happenings to the Hooke mind of a boy is an open book to sought to solve these problems:

Legatees, by E. Phillips him.

jonly the rotund Mr. Jonson ane- Oppenheim.

He finds himself confronted ceeded in his efforts. Gathered together in the pri- with a new Headmaster, young, But across the whole world! vate room of a well-known London brilliant, and progressive, but flashed rumours of an Interna- solicitor were five people-the "without the first beginning of an tional Bureau, and of a wireless 25 sale legatees of Desmond Rooke, idea as to what goes on inside a discovery which would revolu-} 26 distant relative of whom they had boy's head." Conflict is inevitable tiozise the state of nations. And never previously heard. They a conflict in which our House-hard on the heels of rumour came had each inherited the sum of master finds himself handicapped the crowning achievement of these 30 £64,700, and with this fortune they by unsolicited feminine assistance two men; their success in obtain- 20 also seemed to inherit the capacity of a charming but embarrassing ing, through their invention, the

of meeting adventures; and each character.

secret of lasting world peace.

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deed, each of these crimes comes precious near to being that bogey! of all good detectives-the perfectį (murder,

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