ALMOST AS STRANGE
Famous Feats of Detection and Deduction. By Leonard R. Gribble. Ilarrap. 311 pp. (7s 6d net.) Mr Gribble has selected, mainly from the memoirs of great detectives. accounts of 11 remarkable feats of deduction in the last 50 years. The selection makes possible a comparison of police methods in England, France, and America. For most readers, however, the book will be interesting for the light it throws on the probability and the accuracy of detective fiction. The most noticeable difference between fact and fiction is in the authorship of the crimes. The police work on the assumption, which seldom leads them astray, that crimes are committed by criminals. But since the professional criminal is usually an uninteresting person, writers of detective stories prefer crimes committed by novices. When allowance has been made for this difference, it must be admitted that manv writers' of detective stories, with Mr Crofts an easy first among them, are fairJy close to reality.
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Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 21010, 11 November 1933, Page 15
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