NEW TITLES AT A CHEAPER PRICE

Southland Times, Issue 23652, 29 October 1938, Page 14

NEW TITLES AT A CHEAPER PRICE

An increasing number of new novels is being published in England at 3/6 instead of the usual 7/6. They offer attractive reading at the price. IF SORROW FOLLOWS AFTER (Dorothy Black—Hutchinson) is the story of an English girl’s search for her husband in Egypt. She has romantic adventures both on the journey and in the Egyptian desert. A search for 33 diamonds which are lost in an aeroplane crash at Old Panama is the plot of JEWELS OF DEATH (Mary Richmond—Wright and Brown). Before Captain Tanner of the American military police gets to the bottom of the mystery all kinds of sinister plans are revealed in a whirl of excitement. Two good Western romances are THE STAR-PACKERS (Drake C. Denver—Wright and Brown) and WHITE MOUNTAINS (Charles H. Snow—Wright and Brown). Mr Snow’s story is set in the days of the covered wagon; Mr Denver writes of modern times “out west.” But both books are written with equal vigour. John G. Brandon’s latest Detective-Inspector McCarthy story, THE NIGHT CLUB MURDER (Wright and Brown) is particularly good value at this cheap price. The murder at the new Apex Club proves a severe test for Inspector McCarthy’s powers, and the story moves at a splendid pace. THE REDEMPTION (Frederick J. Thwaites—Quality Press) is a moving account of the redemption of a man who was known as the “white derelict of Bombay.”

CHILD OF PASSION (Hurst and Blackett) is a reprint of Hebe Elsna’s popular story, now in its eighth thousand.

Copies of all these books have been received through Whitcombe and Tombs, Ltd.