ENTERTAINING THRILLER
GEORGETTE HEYER'S WIT Miss Georgette Hover's "A Blunt Instrument" is a wittily entertaining thriller, well written, brisk, patently comic, yet implicity tinged with sentiment. Its murders are committed comfortably "off stage." Our withers are not wrung through sympathy with the victims. The detection problem is good, and with "one lady, one man, one jealous-, husband, one outside broker, one dead cabaret girl, one criminal and one sus-picious-looking nephew" as suspects and pointers, we are left facing aniazcdly the least likely- killer. The excellent entertainment comes from the characters involved in, the affair, especially the monocled detectivestorv writer and her attractive but maddening lover, and tho police of various ranks from the Inspector and Sergeant, good sorts both, to the local constable with his importunate quotations from Holy Writ. From an admirable opening situation the story unfolds naturally, and the fun of the dialogue, grows as it proceeds. Blunt Instrument," by Georgette Hcyer. (Hodder anil Stoughton.)
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23115, 13 August 1938, Page 4 (Supplement)
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157ENTERTAINING THRILLER New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23115, 13 August 1938, Page 4 (Supplement)
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