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BOOK NOTICES

In “Who’s the Guy?”, Mr A. J. Evans has written a detective story of an ingenious and entertaining kind. The only killing with which the narrative is concerned is that of an unfortunate tramp, accidentally run down by a motorist on a foggy night. Nevertheless, from the starting point of sensational events on a Guy Fawke’s night in an English village, there develops what has every appearance of being a remarkable murder mystery, involving an active police hunt for the supposed assassin. The story is deftly woven, with a full play of incident and characterisation and its interest is well sustained in spite of the fact that the author at an early stage gives his readers an unimpeded view of the machinery of the plot and absolves them from any necessity of hunting for elusive clues. With all his apparent candour, he has his own way of springing surprises and conducts his story to a thorough!}' effective if unorthodox climax.

“Who’s the Guy?” will appeal to readers who like a well constructed and written detective yarn, with an interesting play of incident and characterisation, free from fantastic absurdities, gangster talk and other attributes of the thriller of the baser kind. “Alice, Where are You?” by Leslie Lance, is of the order of fairy-tale novels in which those who like to do so may wander for a time in realms of pure fancy, far removed from the hard realities of commonplace life. The story is that of a girl who engaged, with skill and address, in a strange masquerade and found her way, through astonishing vicissitudes to ultimate contentment and happiness. Both the above-mentioned books are published by Messrs Hodder and Stoughton and copies have been received from the Australian representative of that firm, Mr W. S. Smart, Sydney.

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https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAITA19410704.2.13

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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 July 1941, Page 3

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300

BOOK NOTICES Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 July 1941, Page 3

BOOK NOTICES Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 July 1941, Page 3

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