Life — May 10, 1929 — page 41: what you’re looking at

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Without a shot being fired, it suc- ceeds in maintaining this authentic flavor to the very end. I can recommend it highly to those who want the real thing about the war, and to English mystery hacks and residents of back streets in the Village who are working on two- dollar books concerning spies, couriers, and those tall, white-moustached mys- tery-men who say, “I say!” and turn out to be big shots in the Secret Serv- ice. They could get a lot of pointers. eee Tue Panient 1x Room 18 (Crime Club $2) by M. G. Eberhart is a har- rowing yarn of death in a hospital, stolen radium, and a fatal room, The story is told well and plainly by a superintendent of nurses, who is everything that a head nurse should be. The pace is satisfactorily rapid, events lead up to the tragedies with appropriate speed. There is little chance of your snar- ing the guilty one, although it is pos- sible to make several shrewd guesses. But even the detective in charge is baffled until the suspect gives himself (or her self... you get no solutions out of me) away by blurting out in- formation which only the guilty person could have. eee Murper By THE Crock (Crime Club $2) by Rufus King, comes to us with the loud recommendations of The Crime Club, The Detective Story Club, and The Book of the Month Club. By actual test, it has earned the approbation of your Policemen without Portfolio, which makes the endorsement unanimous, Commis- sioner Whalen not voting on the ground that he was out of the city at the time but the police have the situation well in hand and expect to make an arrest shortly. Herbert Endicott, the body in the case, has my sympathy, for he was murdered twice—once when his heart went back on him, and again after an injection of adrenalin had brought him back to life, and death. To the author, I doff my detective’s derby for contriving so ingenious a plot, and revealing it in so excellent a narrative. And for creating a de- tective character without eccentricities who nevertheless succeeds in convine- ing you that he is a clever man. The Fiji Islanders own 1,074 auto- mobiles now. The day will come when all cannibal tribes will use them instead of spears. —Kay Features. _ Tt is no longer pertinent to say he lied like a trooper. Be up to date and speak of lying like a prohibition agent at a night club.—Boston Transcript. Education’s Fun? Try FRANCE When printed pages get between you and the facts... it’s hard sledding. -:-Go find them for yourself . . . and it's fun! -:-Take your post- grad work in ancient history in Roman Franco ---follow the Middle Ages and the Renaissance in the Chateau Country ... work up your French driving bargains for books along the Seine...get your knowledge of European mar- kets in Paris, the centre of commercial life. -:- If you're a woman... study the new beauty, the latest clothes at the smart beaches...get the new trends in literature, art, music, decoration in Paris where they all begin. <- Walk into France any Saturday up “the long- est gangplank in the world” to the” Paris,” tho "France” or the Ile de France.”-:-For people of exacting taste who do not happen to possess bottomless pocket-books... the “De Grasse” and "Rochambeau.”:-Travel’s the only educa- tion that never bores the student, young or old! edrench Line e Information from any authorised French Line Agent or write direct to 19 State Street, New York City comicbooks.com