Policeman in Love
NYONE qualified for a pass in Sherlock Holmes Studies (even at Stage I) will recall with regret and admiration the stately figure of Irene Adler, whose maffiage to Godfrey Norton, immediately following the affair with King Wilhelm of Bohemia, must have left the Master with more than a passing pang. To him (says Dr. Watson) "she is always the woman: I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name." Since that time, other celebrated detec- —
tives-and most notably, Lord Peter Wimsey--have been involved more deeply in unhappy love affairs. So far, the private lives of radio detectives have gone more smoothly; Philip Odell and P.C. 49 fave been both helped and hindered by featherpated girl friends. It was a change to find Flint of the Flying Squad (from 1ZB, Sunday nights) bravely nursing a broken heart under his mackintosh. And when the object of his grand passion reappears as a policewoman and joins him in the hunt for a gang of high-level burglars, the situation is promising. Although the serial looks like the mixture as before-may-hem. in Mayfair, skulduggery in the suburbs-the hero at least seems to enjov a richer emotional life than his pre-
decessors,
M.K.
J.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 720, 1 May 1953, Page 8
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203Policeman in Love New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 720, 1 May 1953, Page 8
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