Murder Without Apology
LITERARY addiction to murder strikes me as a comfortable and reasonable vice, but the apologetics which haye grown up around it somewhat embarrassing. One school of apologists will show you a long and distinguished line of ancestry, instancing the story of Susannah and the Elders, as an early piece of detective fiction, and Hamlet as another. It was- pleasant, then, to listen to. Ernest Dudley’s talk from 4YC recently-‘The Father of the Thriller," for there was none of this nonsense about Mr. Dudley. In an eminently sensible manner he took three early writers about crime and spoke of them interestingly-Vidocq, Gaborieau and Pinkerton, the original "private eye." Most of us know about Poe, and Wilkie "Collins; to go further without
falling into a bog of wishful thinking about genealogies, was a feat which re-_
warded the. listener.
Loquax
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 718, 17 April 1953, Page 11
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141Murder Without Apology New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 718, 17 April 1953, Page 11
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