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...story starts at the end instead of the beginning, with a superbly realistic sea battle near Crete. Captain Edward Kinross (Coward) and his flotilla send a Nazi convoy to the bottom well aware that they will probably soon follow their victims. Says Coward, drinking cocoa after the battle, to his signal officer...
First the Dorniers, then dive-bombers roar down for the kill, and Captain Kinross' ship goes down with more than half her crew. Then, while the Captain and a few sailors, covered with fuel oil and sprayed with machine-gun bullets, cling precariously to a raft in the scummy water, the camera flashes back to tell the whole story of the ship...
...EMPEROR'S SNUFF BOX-John Dickson Carr-Harper ($2). How a harassed and suggestible young Englishwoman was saved from almost certain conviction as the slayer of her fiance's father by the supershrewd deductions of Dr. Kinross, specialist in criminal psychology. A brilliant exercise in detecting, a chilling adventure in careful, cold-blooded villainy, a sterling bit of craftsmanship even though one important bit of evidence is held back...
...eight parliamentary by-elections held in Britain since the Munich Deal of three months ago, the most exciting was staged last week in the backward Scottish agricultural constituency of West Perth and Kinross. There Her Grace, the wealthy, 64-year-old Duchess of Atholl stood for re-election on a straight platform of 100% opposition to Prime Minister Chamberlain's policy of dealing with dictators. Long a sharp-tongued critic of Mr. Chamberlain's foreign policy, the Duchess, one of the brainiest women in British politics, has been tagged with such sobriquets as "Red Kitty...
...West Perth and Kinross Conservative club, whose successful candidate she had been since 1923, had repudiated her, and the Duchess, backed by her wealthy, landowning husband, was seeking re-election on an Independent ticket. To assure her of Liberal and Laborite support, both those parties persuaded their candidates to withdraw. Her sole opponent was a well-to-do Perthshire farmer, William McNair Snadden, solidly backed by Chamberlain Conservatives...