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...taken out some extra insurance. He makes good use of a theme currently popular with "serious" novelists, i.e., Aging Man Returns to Home Town in Search of His Youth. On top of that, he manages to combine outstandingly successful plots from both sides of the Atlantic, i.e., the British whodunit's Murder Stalks a Village and the American thriller's Sleuth Outwits Corrupt Local Politicians...
...early Evelyn Waugh. Her mixed bag of English people on a conducted tour includes an aging Scotland Yard inspector, a frightened spinster, a fluttery male dressmaker, a seductive female novelist. They can all be remembered for several days after the book is finished-a neat trick for a whodunit...
...Anderson's harrowing The Bad Seed (about an eight-year-old murderess) wallowed in pain for pain's sake, used tragedy for matinee shudders. Though effective, it never provided-as did Joseph Hayes's The Desperate Hours-the exhilarating tingle of a good thriller. A tidy whodunit, Agatha Christie's Witness for the Prosecution made murder a pleasure...
...refocus it clearly, within the logic of its own time, Author de Santillana has written The Crime of Galileo, a masterly intellectual whodunit which traces not the life but the mental footsteps of Galileo on his road to personal tragedy. Brilliant, but rarefied, the book will appeal especially to those who like to watch a drama of ideas played out against the baroque backdrop of 17th century Italian intrigue...
Died. Elisabeth Sanxay Holding, 65, prolific writer of magazine stories and some 20 mystery novels (Lady Killer, The Innocent Mrs. Duff, The Blank Wall}, known to whodunit fans as one of the earliest (since 1929) and most skillful practitioners of the novel of psychological suspense; after long illness; in The Bronx...