GOOD AND EVIL
MUCH FOOD FOR THOUGHT Those interested in , psycho log v—and many people are these days—will find that Peter Malin's new novel "To Kill Is My Vocation" will give them food for thought, while the criminologist will be interested in the points raised. The murderer commits more than one crime, but it is his attempts to ease his own mind and convince himself that he is not the man he really is which makes the story. It is brutal and sordid, but it is sensitive, too, and the reader will be held by this tense effort to balance the good and the evil. Of course, they cannot bo balanced, but the publishers' belief that it is "one of tho finest novels they have published in recent years" is true if the reader does not expect the merely pleasant.
"To Kill Is My Vocation," by Peter Malin (CassclH.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23339, 6 May 1939, Page 4 (Supplement)
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