The Devil We Don't Know
HAT the devil we don’t know is much more interesting than the devil we do was indicated by my reactions to two crime programmes this week, Secrets of Scotland Yard from, 2ZB on Friday, and John Dickson Carr’s The Devil in the Summerhouse from 2YC the following Sunday. The secrets of Scotland Yard are authentic case histories, related by Clive Brook with dreadful miatter-of-factness-the cheerful’unconcern of a butcher who does not believe in reincarnation wrapping up lamb-chops. Real-life murderers, we gather from these programmes, are moved by baser motives and are less subtle in execution than their fictional counterparts, and hearing about them is neither particularly edifying nor particularly pleasant. But the average radio whodunit is so contrived and artificial that the sudden death in it bears as little relation to the real thing as coconut shells to horses’ hooves, and it is thus possible to relax and enjoy it. The Devil in the Summerhouse was very good thriller, . its atmosphere ‘Suitably murky (the retrospéctive voices were the wee-est bit creepy) but intellectually as clear as day., But I disagreed with Dr. Fell that the most important clue was the hat. My guess was the body. ‘ees,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 479, 27 August 1948, Page 12
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