against Urga M failed, and accordngern's men. Ungern's siege that the—Á—becomes
the author new penalties had to maintain discip-K desertion. This ection forms a bloodthirsty and in-book, one of cruelty 1 It is dedicated Generation. Is this the or is it callous-
Agatha Christie
readers of her pet ive fiction are assured a de-Prey for tag dus author e great lus at creat-Plots—never fails to please, Her full-length thriller "Sad (pub) for the Crime. Collins, London. 8/3) conv kho m here.
a, horror and iHi detection, As one would pt this type, M. and every a little inclined to be us of times, one can easily him, for, his methods, though es apt to border on the always have the desired and he never fails to get to the bottomsof the problem on hand and deli lo murderer to justice. And so it is, with his. present puzzle. A Porania ening case bri about the of two splen women and all. the available evidence known to the points its accus-Reed at Elinor gi as the may miner M era she is a very murderess, reader
long way from being anything resembling an "—Poirot very ge-proves is not the criminal. he gets his nose to the ground and finds the scent nothing on th can shift him, and it is only a 2 of time before he comes out into the open with the shattering details that finally lead to the revelation of the true criminals identity. Hoy he does this must be found out at length from the novel which is unreservedly recommended—r.a.
Generally speaking, *Grass Means Fight" (Ward Lock, London. Colonial Edition 3/6), by Kirk Deeming, is an CE Western iù spite of the plot conveys very little, It is a remarkable fact -that the author deals with the history of the Chinese as far as 23 centuries before the Christian era. It is probably the first time thet such an attempt has been seriously made. The British Encyclopaedia considers that previous to the 7th century B.C. little is known of Chinese history and it considers that we know practically nothing, historically, before that period.
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