Light Fiction for Week-End Reading

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22867, 23 October 1937, Page 4 (Supplement)

Light Fiction for Week-End Reading

CRIME AND AVIATION Captain A. O. Pollard, V.C., is expected to provide u story of the nir, but in "The .Murder Genu," instead of a ywrii ol aerial exploits with nn international background, lie give.-, hi.-* public a thrilling ni\.,tery. It ooen.s with his hero, J'"l)ght-i,icutenant Grayling, discovering that in liia aeroplane he has a mjjiiual lunatic Jor his passenger. The landing is almost a crash, and while the coin id. j* unconscious the /light-lieutenant goes for help. That is the beginning of his association with the onryveiling of a ntai'tling series of critics in fa plain Pollard's beM style. ~ '71"; " ''l' t-'ui>iai« A. O.

Rogues Pursued Days of Danger: A DepartT er ][ Z Story." by John Crcasey, 'i the ninth story which the author has written with the Z department tn full cry after undesirable folk.. In /oe latest book one of the villain! has written a letter to the consternation of his comrades in crime, and tne story opens with the attempt to get (he Utter back. From that moment, c , in all John Creasey stones, the pace is a " cracker." " Days of Danger: A DcoartOdeirose.) " B> ' J ° ha Creasey "

GHOST IN CORNWALL The Cornish village of Perranprah tvaa the scene of tragedy, and through local pride m not seeking the help of Scotland Yard, the guilty man escaped. When, therefore, a little later on a visitor is missing, Scotland Yard officials are called in at once, and the task set before them is detailed in "The Ghost of Parranprah," bv Hugh f<ea. Ihe Scotland Vard man in charge has a great friend in the village, and the significance of this apparently unimportant fact is not revealed until the last page. "The Ghost <if Pemnprah," by Huath Lea. (Haider and Stoujhton.)