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A Mystery For The
Veteran who-dunnit writer Agatha Christie is in vastly good form for her new mystery, The Mirror Cracked from Side to Side —which, in case you don’t know it, is what happened when Lord Tennyson’s Lady of Shalott felt the hand of Doom upon her.
Miss Christie —or Agatha Christie Ltd., as she now is— has been interested in writing West End, long-playing mystery plays in recent years and some of her books have seemed to indicate that her hand had lost some of its cunning in this par ticular department. The Mirror, etc., proves that it is not so.
A Miss Marple—Chief-Inspec tor Dermot Craddock number, it concerns some dark happen ings at the Hall. Excellent characterisation, an astringent appreciation of the contemporary scene and a well-sustained plot will please Christie fans.
(The Mirror Cracked From
SIDE TO SIDE. Published by Collins. 20/-.)