Word: ans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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THE SMILER WITH THE KNIFE-Nicholas Blake-Harper ($2). Perilous adventures befall the wife of a private investigator when she agrees to help the British secret service smash a Fascist conspiracy. To an exciting story pseudonymous Author Blake (English Poet Cecil Day-Lewis) adds the fillip of exceptionally good writing...
KNOCK, MURDERER, KNOCK!-Harriet Rutland-Harrison-Hilton ($2). Plenty baffled are Local Inspector Palk and a mysterious amateur sleuth when three guests in an English hydropathic hotel have their heads skewered with a steel knitting needle. Neurotic, crossgrained, gossipy characters are the tale's specialty.
A University lecturer who "may deliver occasional lectures" is a rather extraordinary individual. When that lecturer is a director of the British Broadcasting Corporation--an integral part of the wartime "Office of Information"--and has been given a Harvard title "under a special grant", there are grounds for healthy scepticism...
But it would be naive to imagine that Mr. Siepmann's visit is purely academic. Obviously, he will travel about the country, but ton-holing the leading radio executives, dining and wining them, discussing -- in an off-hand manner, of course -- the unfortunate war into which Britain has been dragged...
In giving Mr. Siepmann a Harvard title, which will prove an open sesame in the circles in which he will move, the University made a tactical blunder. In these days of indirect propaganda, the coloring of news dispatches and radio programs is all-important: it has a cumulative effect upon...