DETECTIVE STORIES
WRITERS TAKEN TO ASK “THE PERFECT PLOT” LONDON, June 2. Tho Archbishop Of York, Dr. William Temple, in liis presidential address to members of the Library Association, at Scarborough, charged writers of detective stories with cheating their readers and spoiling their pleasure by either keeping the criminal out of' the story, or withholding clues which would point to the guilt. He defined the perfect story ns one iu which the reader had all the evidence on which, the criminal could be convicted, and yet was led to suspect somebody else until the moment of the arrest. Referring to first editions, Dr. Temple said: “I take the utilitarian view ot hooks —for me they exist; to be read, not to furnish libraries, and not even to be treasured.” Ho described limericks as “a means of expressing pleasure in verbal dexterity —one of the simplest ot literary pleasures.”
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19364, 30 June 1937, Page 16
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148DETECTIVE STORIES Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19364, 30 June 1937, Page 16
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