20 OCTOBER 1939, page 28

Detectives In Gas Masks

Suicide Excepted. By Cyril Hare. (Faber. 7s. 6d.) WHAT is to become of the detective story in war-time? There is much talk of " escape " literature for black-outs, but perhaps......

Fiction

Old Home Week. By Minnie Hite Moody. (Putnam. 7s. 6d.) THE author of The Asiatics carries his own Asia with him, and his publishers do wrong to suggest that in his new novel "he......