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...MIST ON THE WATERS (250 pp.)-F. L. Green-Harcourt, Brace...
...Green is an English novelist (Odd Man Out; A Flask for the Journey) with a special knack for portraying the terrors of obscure city people. His aim: to steer a middle course between the bloodstained thriller and the bloodless novel of ideas. His latest novel achieves it. Mist on the Waters is a taut telling of a crime of weakness, and of the forces it releases in the lives of its perpetrators...
Readers may be disturbed by two weaknesses in this otherwise skillful story: its occasional lapses into stilted novelistic clichés, and its too convenient ending which veils coincidence with the appearance of fatality. But for the most part, Mist on the Waters is as good as a first-rate movie thriller. With somebody like Barry Fitzgerald playing the part of Barty Fingal, Hollywood could have a story to work with...
...counties of Northern Ireland are overlaid with ancient mysteries and poetic myths. Last week, renewed religious bitterness also hung like a poisonous mist over the lovely loughs and dales...
...with clear and vivid pictures of action, but the distinction of his work was its fine cadenced prose. O'Faoláin's novels, e.g., A Nest of Simple Folk, had much the same quality, but were diffused and blurred by an indistinctness that lay like a mist over setting and characters alike...