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MR WHITBY’S GUESTS The Night of Reckoning. By Sydney Horler Eyre and Spottlswoode Ltd. 190 pp. (7/6 net.) A high Foreign Office official, a crooked financier of genius, a woman who has narrowly escaped the gallows; why did Farquhar Whitby invite these three, strangers to him and to each other, to meet his fourth remarkable guest, an eminent astronomer, at dinner? Mr Horler’s answer is presented in a story of Nazi plot and secret service counterplot. ILLYRIA Crisis in Zanat. By George Malcolm Thomson. Faber and Faber. 235 pp. Through Whitcombe and Tombs Ltd. It is quite impossible and quite unnecessary to let the reader see, beforehand. why and how the British journalist. the American archaeologist, and the Illyrian chambermaid played important parts in the Axis-engineered revolution that was to unship Prince Basil from the throne of Illyria. They had no idea themselves .... But Mr Thomson explains, most amusingly.
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Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23848, 18 January 1943, Page 4
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