"TO WAKE THE DEAD"
In "To Wake the Dead," Rodney Kent, a South African visitor, was brutally murdered in the country house of an English friend with whom "lie was staying. Death was due to strangulation, and the victim's face had also been savagely disfigured. A few days later his widow met an exactly similar fate in a large London hotel. Both cases presented certain features of the inexplicable and fantastic kind that always appealed to Dr. Fell. It was fortunate for justice that the elephantine Doctor's interest was aroused, for the criminal enjoyed so many advantages arising from coincidence and extraordinary circumstances that lie \vould almost certainly have been able to outwit Scotland Yard. As a thriller the tale is in the class known as a "sleep-stealcr." ''To Wake (he Dead," by John Dirkson Carr. (Hanmh Hamilton.)
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22949, 29 January 1938, Page 4 (Supplement)
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138"TO WAKE THE DEAD" New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22949, 29 January 1938, Page 4 (Supplement)
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