TWO CRIME STORIES
GOOD LIGHT READING An ingenious scheme to defraud a large insurance company gives Ethel N. White an opportunity to write a clever crime story as well as to create an unusual character in Charlie Baxter, the "body" in the case. Another unusual feature of "The First Time He Died" is that while it is definitely a crime story, tho police force aro barely introduced. In contrast is Dr. Robert Stuart's murder story which bears the rather unimaginative title "Duncan Ross, Detective Sergeant." The author, according to tho foreword, attributed to Lord Justice Roche, has had considerable first-hand experience of police court work, and this is borno out by the interesting notes and also the treatment of the trial. A refreshing note is struck ?n that Sergeant Ross is portrayed not as a master mind of deduction or extraordinary intuition but as a methodical, painstaking policeman with a strong desire to see justice done. Th is will prove a particularly interesting book for the armchair criminologist. . "The First Time He Died," by Ethel Nina White. (Collins.) "Duncan Ross. Detective Sergeant," by Robert Stuart". (B'lackie.)
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22320, 18 January 1936, Page 12 (Supplement)
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186TWO CRIME STORIES New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22320, 18 January 1936, Page 12 (Supplement)
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