Light Fiction for Week-End Reading

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23121, 20 August 1938, Page 4 (Supplement)

Light Fiction for Week-End Reading

HAPPY ENDING "Everybody else had got themselves fixed up all right. Give had won through with Diana. . . . Owen was C|iiito sure of Mark . . . every one slio had'helped ... it was her own fault for being Acquiescent Annie.'' So the heroine muses in "After the Haiti," by Jane Henderson, and while it is true she is busy about the love affairs of her friends she herself runs into fine weather as the title. "After tho Rain" obviously suggests. "After the Kain," by Jane lieiulcrsou. (Ward Lock.)

I . j Polo and Crime \

• "1 he Great Insurance Murders," j J by Milton Proppcr, is a fast-moving ! • American mystery story. Daring a ; | polo match a player is j • murdered, and the Word "insurance" • ! in the title will give a cluc to the : j main theme. Rankin, the detective, • j 7s a rare character, and llic (lis- i j criminating reader of detective fiction • i will enjoy this really clever story, i j "The Great Insurance Murders," : : by Milton Propper. (llarrap.) •

OLD BAILEY DRAMA "A most serious mistake ho* been made, I never met. i never even saw Sir Thomas- Clarkson." So said the young imtti charged with the murder of Sir Thomas. And Mrs. ' Belloc Lowndes, in her novel. "Motive," gives it, vivid storv of the Old Bailey trial and the verdict, of "Guilty,'' though the prisoner told the truth when Ik* said that he had not even met the murdered man. Of course, he is cleared, but Mrs. Belloc Lowndes makes a good storv of it. , "Motive," by Mrs. Belloc Lowndes. (Hutchinson.)