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APPLEBY ON ARARAT-Michael Innes-Dodd, Mead ($2). A learned Scotland Yarder, marooned with five other loquacious characters on remote Pacific islet, elucidates the slaying of Sir Ponto Unumunu, black anthropologist, and goes on to puncture an Empire-threatening secret of oddly assorted indigenes. Overtones of Evelyn Waugh, G. K. Chesterton and E. P. Oppenheim make it a treat for those who like their mysteries recondite...
...only man in British officialdom who smells a Teuton in the one-by-one disappearance of four of His Majesty's newest war planes, Scotland Yarder Richardson ambles after clews with the skew of a Punch barfly, leans archly on an emblematic umbrella, stickles an uncertain industrialist with the crack: "With your genius for sitting on either side of the fence, you ought to be in the Government." As upsetting to Scotland Yard tradition as he is to the belief that the British are essentially humorless, Actor Richardson seemed the likeliest character yet to carry on for justice...
After a few more sweeps by Moore and McClure, the Mitres tightened up, but on the fourth down, McClure heaved a 10-yarder to Moore. The inevitable result of the steady march came when McClure went over on a center buck...
...London cinemansion, is the hireling of a gang of terrorists. While she tends her little brother Stevie, Verloc douses all the lights of London by sabotaging the generators. Next he is ordered to blow up Piccadilly Circus by leaving a bomb in the Underground station. Meanwhile, a handsome Scotland Yarder has him under surveillance, also makes eyes at Sylvia. Unable to leave the house without being detected, Verloc sends Stevie to plant the bomb. Unwitting Stevie dawdles, is blown up on the way. Sylvia then stabs Verloc to death, is about to surrender to the police when another bombing brings...
...woman's head is in his battered hatbox, that he is going to kill her aunt. Olivia is also aware that she is falling in love with him. Climax of her disintegration occurs when she claims the sinister box as her own in order to dissuade a Scotland Yarder from opening it. Every possible dramatic drop is squeezed from the scene in which Mrs. Bramson becomes hysterical with fright at being left alone in the house, hysterical with relief when her adored "Danny" comes back - to smother her with a cushion...