Word: novels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...never to have heard of the semi-colon. one of the most valuable resources in the whole punctuational arsenal; and others, especially in epistolary usage, seem never to have heard of anything but the dash--unless it be the triple exclamation point! And even such a splendid and important novel as Joyce Cary's The Horse's Mouth is marred by horrible punctuation, particularly the author's evidently insatiable passion for the period...
...best of modern mysteries equal or outrank the run-of-the-rental-shelf "straight" novel in almost every department-plotting, characterization, background. They are novels of emotional conflict, in unusual settings, books that wrestle with the problems of frustration or greed or success. The traditional hole in the victim's head is often added as a sort of casual dividend. Seasonal items...
...INSPECTOR, by Helen Reilly (207 pp.; Random House; $2.95), the author's 32nd published novel, is peopled with stylish, upper-middle-class Manhattanites who yearn for just those few extra thousands a year. This sort of yearning leads to murder for profit. The romantic side of the plot, offering the heroine a wide choice of elegant men, documents the complexity of a woman's mind and heart. The case is wrapped up by Inspector McKee, nagged by his boss the commissioner, who, in turn, is nagged by political pressures. Expertly tooled and shined, soundly constructed...
...Macmlllan; $3.95), is a sort of western, too. although it is set in iyth century Ireland. A minority of English settlers were struggling with a cantankerous but unorganized mass of natives whose language, religion, law and customs were totally different from their own. This lively historical novel deals with the mid-century years when Oliver Cromwell, having beheaded King Charles I. marched into Ireland with his vengeful army to put a quietus to the Irish question...
...Temple of the Golden Pavilion, by Yukio Mishima. Beauty's dark power to paralyze the will is merely one among many meanings in this sensuously symbolic novel about the burning of a 14th century Buddhist temple...