Word: authority
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Four-Part Setting - Ann Bridge -Little, Brown ($2.50). By the author of Peking Picnic, this sophisticated romance, with a Chinese background, stands out for its deft handling of romantic problems among the British embassy...
...Hamilton Gibbs's A Half Inch of Candle (Little, Brown, $2.50), a south-of-France British romance and pacifist sermon, slightly animated by the author's boyishness...
...Past the End of the Pavement-Charles G. Finney-Holt ($2). A nostalgic tale of smalltown, small-boy Missouri brothers with a passion for odd pets. Author Finney (The Circus of Dr. Lao) describes the animals brightly, designs his laughs for adults...
...WIND OF BLAME - Georgette Heyer-Crime Club ($2). No one cares much when bibulous, cantankerous Wallis Carter is shot on the English estate owned by his rich ex-chorus-girl wife. Though ingenious, Inspector Hemingway's sleuthing is secondary to the bright antics of Author Heyer's genteel screwballs...
...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...