Light Fiction for Week-End Reading

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23073, 25 June 1938, Page 4 (Supplement)

Light Fiction for Week-End Reading

SEQUEL TO A STAMPEDE Mr. llamsay Bell opens his novel, "To Joanna," with an unusual incident. Joanna is alone in her car late at night driving to London, when she meets in a narrow lane a stampede of farm horses. She gives the necessary warning to a house near at hand and tho discussion as to who drove the horses out of the field becomes more tense when it is discovered that a man has been trampled to death. Joanna has to postpone her journey to town, for although she is a London business woman she takes a leading part in solving tho mystery—and finds romance at tho same time. "To Joanna," by feamsay Bell. (Hoddcr and Stougliton.)

Secret Service Mr. Michael Annesley's new book, "Missing Agent," is a swifi-mooing story of intrigue concerning the adventures of Laurie Fenton and his arch enemy, Wallace Brentwood, Most of the scenes arc set in Finland, and the tale deals with Fenton's effort to prevent Russian timber being exported to England under the guise of Finnish timber. The story is vividly told, and while possessing all the elements of a thriller, has a romantic interest also. It is a thoroughly good yarn of interest to all readers of Secret Service stories. " Missing Agent," by Michael Annesley. (Harrap.)

"PIPE PUSHERS" The pipes that give the title to "The Pipe Pushers and Other Stories" wero to bo forced under the German lines, filled with high explosive and fired as a preliminary to an infantry attack. The red-headed Cornelius, whose idea it was, believed that his pipes would end the war, but the operations of the pipepushers came to an unexpected' conelusion, of n kind which caused much irreverent mirth among the sceptics. This, and the 20 other stories, are told with the author's lively humour. "The Pipe Pushers and Other Stories," by Weston Martyr. (Blackwood.).