KILLING A CRITIC
DEAD LION, by John and Emery Bonnett; Michael Joseph. English price, 8/6. HERE is a pleasant flavour of The New Statesman and Nation in this story of a murdered critic. It is not merely ‘that a copy of the esteemed journal supplies one of the clues. The | characters, especially among the literati on the outskirts of the novel, are obviously members of the coteries; and the plot could have grown out of an entry in the Weekend Competitions. The story is neatly contrived-a little bizarre, perhaps, but not impossible if linked in the imagination to the more literary parts of London. Moreover, there are no policemen, a fact which helps the reader to stay firmly on the side of the murderer. Writers who have suffered from "clever" reviews will not be out of sympathy with the person who removed
an obnoxious critic.
H.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 552, 20 January 1950, Page 15
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146KILLING A CRITIC New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 552, 20 January 1950, Page 15
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