UNDER SUSPICION
Reading " The Dennisdale Tragedy," one gets the impression that Mr. Andover has more feeling for Nature than for Man. This suggests that the detective story is not his metier. The best parts of the book are descriptions of scenery and of the bursting of a dam, which artistically ought to be the climax. The human characters are rather flat and conventional, and it is difficult to be stirred by the plot. Moreover, tho " surprise " sprung on page 100, or thereabouts, is none to the reader who has studied the family tree, while tho last 80 pages aro devoted to the murderer's death, tho settling of an ingenuous love-story, and similar tidyings-up. There are, then, only 100 pages even of nominal puzzlement. It is difficult to understand why the narrator was so readily resigned to being for ever suspected of a double murder when he could so easily prove to gossipcrs (if not to lawyers) that lie had no motive whatever. " Tho Dennisdale Trngedy," by Henry Andover. (Eyre and Spottiewoode).
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22402, 24 April 1936, Page 4 (Supplement)
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171UNDER SUSPICION New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22402, 24 April 1936, Page 4 (Supplement)
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