"She Has Succeeded in Producing One of the Few Notable for Originality"

THE SATURDAY REVIEW OF LITERATURE issue for July 24, 1926, happened to contain a couple of reviews of detective fiction books that are still being read ninety-nine years later:

The Incredulity of Father Brown is available in a deluxe Standard Ebooks edition (HERE).

Related articles (HERE) and (HERE).

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THE author of this review was William Rose Benét (1886-1950; HERE), the older brother of Stephen Vincent Benét (1898-1943; HERE). We previously discussed the younger Benét's involvement with detection fiction (HERE) and (HERE).

References:

- The Murder on the Links (HERE)

- The Secret Adversary (HERE)

- The Secret of Chimneys (HERE)

- Poirot Investigates (HERE)

- J. S. Fletcher (HERE)

- R. Austin Freeman (HERE)

- The House of the Arrow (HERE)

- The Red Lamp (HERE)

- Isabel Ostrander (HERE)

- "one is always an Oliver Twist" (HERE)

- Hercule Poirot (HERE)

  (Not a "Frenchman.")

There's also a deluxe Standard Ebooks version of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (HERE).

Related articles (HERE), (HERE), (HERE), and (HERE).

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