"DEAD MAN'S MUSIC."
Those who are keen on the better class mystery siory will welcome " Dead Man's Music," the latest novel by Christopher Bush, who will be remembered for " The Perfect Murder Case." Mr. Bush is to be congratulated upon the able manner in which he constructs his stories and, with good writing, holds the reader's interest without the slightest recourse to the" blood and thunder " of melodrama, upon which so many writers of detective fiction rely for their "thrills." "His character drawing, too? is excellent. His chief sleuth, Travel's, is a very charming young man. While Travers really lives in the book, one feels that one would like to make a personal friend of him. A publisher's note says that with a certain clue available, the leader, "if clever enough," should be able to " spot " {he murderer of Claud Book. The reviewer makes no excuses for confessing that he was nd. clever enough. Students of music might possibly find the task to be an easy one: but the book will be not a whit less interesting to theni. —" Denrl Mini's Music," by Christopher iicesli. (licinecjaiii).)
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21100, 6 February 1932, Page 9 (Supplement)
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