Guilty of Murder
NYONE who takes any kind of pleasure, even if vicarious, in crime knows by now that murderers do the most unaccountable things in the stress of the moment. But in the case of a "whodunit" these blunders have to be cut down to a minimum, leaving one little mistake to be detected by the hero in the last-scene-but-one. Consider your Verdict has a new angle on an old subject by asking you to judge instead of detect the criminal: and now, judging, from the last I heard in this series, 4 subtleties of detection seem to be femarkably simplified by the gross blunders of the murderer. This particular one leaves no stone unturned. He and his beautiful secretary leave the corpse of his wife in a trunk where the electrician is sure to stumble over it; they drop one of her slippers in the stair cupboard; and crowning folly, they remove the weights and chains from a valuable antique.clock in order to weigh down the body with them. Crime, what s
liberties have been committed in thy name! This play was good entertainment, the verdict, to laymen at least, not an easy one. We are so used to the incredibly clever murderers of fiction that it is bolstering to the ego, to say the least of it, to know that there are still some murderers who do not think of everything-bar-one.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 437, 7 November 1947, Page 18
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234Guilty of Murder New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 437, 7 November 1947, Page 18
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