A GOOD THRILLER

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 24, 29 January 1938, Page 26

A GOOD THRILLER

; "The General's Diary ?s a thriller ; of ah-oddly quiet and convincing sort. [ A certain general, deceased, has written, a diary containing matter of vial , importance to the Government. '■" On , his death-bed he has confided it to his i best friend; buf on the voyage home . from India this man also dies, confid- . ing it in his last moments "to his . daughter, who is not at all satisfied ; about the diagnosis of the cause of his ! death.' She takes the diary to his i mother, in a snvill country town: the i old lady hands it to her lawyers; and this is where the story really opens. Strange men of various nationalities ■ are seen hanging about; queer, things happen, all in a country setting of fine weather and agricultural shows. At . last, on the day of the show, when the . population and the police are otherwise engaged, the friends of the old :t lady find themselves actually besieged in her house. And one. thinks, "Yes, ; this might happen, even the shooting, ; even the frightful fate that overhangs •■4he little Boy Sequt, in these days , when men can come and go swiftly by plane, leaving no trace." The secrets of. the diajry are saved, the attackers vanish in the air—^and the reader has had an evening of pleasurable excitement. ,