DETECTIVE NOVELS
"At a recent meeting o£ the After - Dinner Club there was a brisk discussion of the future of the detective novel," writes Mr. Herbert H. Horwill from London to the "New York Times Book Review." "Dorothy Sayers expressed the opinion that its writers should now abandon their meticulous descriptions of police procedure and concentrate on exploration of the mind of. the murderer rather than on the methods of the detective. By this time, she thinks, the reader is sufficiently familiar with finger-print taking, poison analysis, and so on. "Humbert Wolfe startled his hearers by maintaining that nearly all detective novelists convicted the wrong person, He proposed that there should be some kind of Court of Criminal Appeal with power to restore to their friends and relations these innocent characters wrongfully condemned by their creators." Readers of this class of fiction mayi or may not agree with the opinions expressed above, but they will get exercise for their brains if they read any of the following:—"The House of Sccrets," by Wyndham Marty 11 (Herbert Jenkins), and "The Case of Die Two Pearl Necklaces," by A. Feilding, u Crime Club publication. ANSWER TO CORRESPONDENT. "Book."—-We regret that we have no knowledge of the volume you mention*
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 145, 20 June 1936, Page 28
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206DETECTIVE NOVELS Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 145, 20 June 1936, Page 28
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