CRICKET GUYED
Mr. Adrian Alington's latest comedy, "The Amazing Tost Match Crime," js a skit on other things besides cricket. Mr. Alington has an organisation known as the Bad Men for whose originals in fiction we have not far to look; and his American gangster who is bored with the comparative bloodlessness of European crime is given a literary style (in his diary) that is, a London critic maintains, almost too much like Mr. Damon Kunyon's to bo a parody. He is amusing, if not surprising, when lie makes fun of cricket enthusiasts. and very funny at the expense of the company in the Press box. Jt is hardly necessary to toll the story. What other crime could there be in connection with cricket than an attempt to stop a test match? "The Amazing Test Match Crime," by Adrian Alington. (Chatto and Windus.)
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23339, 6 May 1939, Page 4 (Supplement)
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143CRICKET GUYED New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23339, 6 May 1939, Page 4 (Supplement)
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