UNUSUAL SKILL
Joseph L. Bonney has written a detective novel of unusual skill and interest —not particularly realistic (the hermetically sealed puzzle is seldom that), but given life (as are the best of the type) by the characters that perform in the puzzle, and _ starting from an ingenious situation in which the one person who could, and even should, have murdered the celebrated actress can' prove'that he did not do so. In "No Man's Hand," while the murder-method is altogether too the sleuth, Simon ■ Rolfe. is entertaining. He and his chronicler are deliberately intended: 'to... recall and satirise Holmes and the. incomparable Watson; at the same time Rolfe displays a gift for close deductive argument. , "No Man's Hand," by Joseph L. Bonney. (Heinemann.)
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23773, 28 September 1940, Page 4 (Supplement)
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