Detective Fiction
INTERVENING was a habit. Dr. Thorndyke had, as every amateur of criminal romance knows; and the. marvel is that after so many interventions is as fresh -ii that may be said of the most dignified investigator in detective fiction —as over. 'I here are, as is Mr. R. Austin Freeman’s generous way, two different mysteries in Dr. Thorndyke Intervenes,” which get well mixed at the start. A human head left in a, railway cloakroom; the llieft of a priceless consignment of platinum —these arc the beginnings. There is an admirable exhumation scene, with the doctor suddenly seeing it all —but not saving so —as In l lifts out the lumps ol lead from the corpseless collin. An 1 one learns in the end some strange chemical facts which may or may not come in useful on one’s way through life. Jn fact, it is Thorndyke, and at his best. —(llodder and Stoughton.)
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18267, 9 December 1933, Page 9
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154Detective Fiction Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18267, 9 December 1933, Page 9
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