THE VOGUE OF DETECTIVE TALES
“If a. man or woman of intelligence lie questioned as to their reading the fashionable reply of the moment is that they read what. they must, and for tho rest detective stories.” says a writer in the “Woman s Leadei. “ Bishops state publicly that they confess to enjoying ‘ a good detective, tale.’ Fathers of families buy them m quantity for holiday reading. In tact, i a taste for the possible varieties <>l , murder has become almost the sign of a ' roallv nice ’ human being. It would lie interesting to know why. fifty years ami it would have been clear to seventy-live people out of a hundred that this sort of story was suitable t„ office hoys so long as it aas not read within office hours. Ihe remaining twenty-five people would have disapproved of it entirely and provided the office hoys with tracts.
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Hokitika Guardian, 9 February 1928, Page 1
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148THE VOGUE OF DETECTIVE TALES Hokitika Guardian, 9 February 1928, Page 1
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