Eye for an Eye.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 578, 7 October 1932, Page 6

Eye for an Eye.

Week-end Books

By Graham Seton. SETON wrote that splendid spy story, “ The W. Plan,” which, both as a novel and as a film, has achieved a huge success. The latest story, “ Eye for an Eye,” is also a secret service yarn and it deals with Great Britain and the Soviets. Leslie Warren, a noted radiologist, is in possession of a secret invention which will revolutionise warfare. Warren is murdered in Central Asia by Adrian Whitehead, a former British submarine officer, but now an outcast in the pay of the Soviet. Britain is asked to pay five hundred thousand pounds for the information now in the possession of Whitehead, but thanks to a clever girl, Joan Greenslade, the plans are secured and the murderer pays the penalty. Ere the story closes we find Great Britain and the Soviets at war but Warren’s secret enables Britain to gain a mighty victory. This is an exciting and entertaining story of adventures and romance, and it will be eagerly read by Mr Seton’s many admirers.

Benefits Received.

By Alice Rosman. JT IS ESTIMATED that over three hundred thousand copies of Alice Rosman’s novels have been sold. This testifies to her popularity with readers of light fiction. Her novel, “ Visitors to Hugo,” was a delightful story and was tremendously popular. The latest from her pen, “ Benefits Received,” tells the story of Biddy Kerlin, motherless since her eighth year. After the death of her father, Biddy spent a year in the home of her grandmother, but in the end was told to go. When the story opens we find Biddy in a flat and struggling along upon one hundred pounds per annum. We are told, too, something about her grandmother, old Mrs Devonshire. Biddy seeks a position with a firm of antique dealers and, acting upon the advice of Mr Dawes, is determined to seek antiques in out-of-the-way places in London. Her quest takes her into all sorts of corners and then at a sale she makes a purchase of some importance. It is just here that old Mrs Devonshire dies; there are the usual family squabbles, and the gathering of the relatives to hear the family lawyer read the last will and testament—a bombshell to some members of the family, but to Biddy a very great surprise. Here we have a charming story, pleasantly told, and intensely human. ERNEST J. BELL.