TRACKING THE VILLAIN.
There have been quite a few reporters who, in fiction, were ever so much cleverer than Scotland Yard, much quicker on the uptake, and very much smarter at seeing a hole or a" ladder. -Mi. Hammond Innes produces one of these in "The Doppelganger" (Herbert •Icnkins). The police almost believed that they were on the track of a Jekyll and Hyde murderer, but it was not that only a man in a mask. The smart reporter had a big job before he could prove who was the real villain of the piece. The story is brightly told, but it was a little unfair to make so nice « girl as the heroine fall in love with the reporter and then to saVe him up for another book and another girl.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 156, 3 July 1937, Page 2 (Supplement)
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132TRACKING THE VILLAIN. Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 156, 3 July 1937, Page 2 (Supplement)
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