RADIO STAR found MURDERED

Radio Record, 7 August 1936, Page 28

RADIO STAR found MURDERED

PHOEBE ATWOOD TAYLOR gives us.a new "Asey Mayo" mystery ‘in "The Crimson Patch." In this clearly-written, well-con-structed story the victim is none other than the famous star, Rosalie Ray, "radio’s little -face-lifted punch of personality," with a temper that her fans’ luckily know nothing of. Anyone who had experienced it could hardly feel any deep regret when she is:found by her host fatally stabbed with a. whale lance. Complications are bound to creep in; and they do. © .There is the matter of a certain cigarette-lighter found on Rosalie’s quilt; the key of her door "plante " in: the room‘of one of the other members of: the household; the man in the pink and white striped shirt who keeps popping up and then disappearing in the most elusive manner, It is certainly a very tangled skein for. that genial amateur detective, Mayo, to unravel, but he does it in the most logieal manner; ‘and after the suspicion has. rested on everyone, possible and impossible-even almost on the president himself-the discovery of the real murderer comes as a great surprise:to the reader as well as to the. characters in the book. : "Asey" is well known in the States by reason of Miss Taylor’s two previous books about him, and his fame ig rapidly spreading overseas, as it well deserves. ; "The Crimson Patch." Phoebe Atwood Taylor. Victor Gollancz. Our copy from the publishers,