Murder Won't Out
HE Secrets of Scotland Yard are being discreetly revealed now from all-Commercial stations. , Clive Brooke’s narrative, told with the modesty becoming to a Yard Inspector, did full justice to the case of Mr. Donkin, who (continued on next page)
(continued from previous page) found the blitz uncommonly useful for concealing both the crime and the corpse... He is brought to justice, of course-it is mo secret that the Yard Always Gets Its ~-Man; and the ‘manoeuvres of the police provide some interesting moments, although we know that Mr. Donkin-alias-Rankin’s goose was cooked at the start. I found myself wishing that this programme could
reveal some of the real mysteries of Scotland Yard-the ones that haven't ever been solved. Any fictional] thriller can bring the criminal to justice quite as satisfactorily; but it takes a "true life detective story" from the Yard’s annals to leave him convincingly at-large. It is, as Alexander Woollcott remarks somewhere, quite one of the feeblest warnings of the copybook that murder will out. And certainly the ones that won’t out have the incomparable merit of being perennially interesting.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 474, 23 July 1948, Page 8
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185Murder Won't Out New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 474, 23 July 1948, Page 8
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