Subtle Type

DEATH IN THE QUARRY-G. D. H. & M. Cole-Crime Club ($2).

As different as prose and poetry are the two prevailing types of detectification: 1) the shooting-&-chasing kind, with more action than plot, the denouement hidden by red herrings; 2) the novel which attempts to convey an impression of real people, leisurely, intelligent, even sophisticated, with a minimum of shock and horror. The thriller market has lately declined with a consequent rise in general interest in the more subtle type of this brand of fiction.

A good example of class No. 2 is Death in the Quarry. Dennis Norman has to reveal his past life to free himself of suspicion in a murder. The study of quarrying, crockery and corporate finance eventually leads dogged Superintendent Wilson to the solution of a strange case.

George Douglas Howard Cole is Reader in Economics at Oxford, acting President of the Workers' Educational Association, member of the League of Nations' Economic and Political Committees. He whites articles on economics for the Encyclopedia Britannica, books such as Gold, Credit and Unemployment and Unemployment, British Trade and Industry Past and Future.

Margaret Isabel Cole lectures for the University Tutorial classes in London, contributes to The New Statesman and Nation, The Spectator, serves as Secretary to the Socialist League. Graduated from Cambridge (First Honors in classics) she took a job in a Labor Research Bureau of which G. D. H. Cole was honorary secretary. Married in 1918, the two continued to write, for the most part individually of abstruse economics, jointly of fictional adventures. In October, Knopf is bringing out a 400-page joint effort entitled The Intelligent. Man's Survey of Modern Politics intended, the authors say "to . . . present . . . the outstanding features of the political life of a number of countries. . . ."

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