Cold Corpse
HERE is no:blinking the fact that the craze for crime fiction in Britain has reached gigantic, ridiculous proportions. The thing has become as habitual, and as mindless, as | cigarettesmoking. There are those who regard it as pernicious, a waste of time for the consumer and a sad diversion of talent for the producer. Their contention is that the taste of readers is being steadily corrupted by this sensational, machinemade fiction, this diet of cold corpse and ‘mixed pickles, and last, in catering for this taste, in supplying this voracious demand, many writers of talent are tempted away from what should be their proper business-the production, or the attempt to produce, enduring
literature.-
Gerald
Bullet
in a BBC
talk on Holiday Reading.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 439, 21 November 1947, Page 32
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123Cold Corpse New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 439, 21 November 1947, Page 32
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