KILLERS
The Strange Boarders of Palace Crescent. By E. Phillips Oppenheim. Hcdder and Stoughton. 314 pp. From \V. S. Smart. The Lessing Murder Case. By Sydney Horler. Collins. 251 pp. Mr Oppenheim assembles under the roof of a typical London board-ing-house an international gang of crooks and some simple, ordinary people. They mix well enough till the murder of one of the crooks outside the boarding-house starts a chain of events that leads to startling disclosures, which show the apparently mild-mannered and ordinary persons who dwell in the boarding-house in all their sinister reality. As usual Mr Oppenheim tells the story well. Most of Mr Horler's characters are extraordinarily unpleasant persons—even his hero is not always free of the charge—and his heroine, a perfect lady, is guilty of the remark, "How terribly Victorian you talk sometimes, Beryl." But plenty of entertainment and excitement and a twist to the end of the story atone for much of its crudity.
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Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21412, 2 March 1935, Page 15
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