BLACK-OUT IN GRETLEY

by J. B. Priestley ‧ RELEASE DATE: Feb. 3, 1942

A good yarn and it will sell. A better book than his earlier thriller, The Doomsday Men and a more convincing one, but it belongs in that category, along with his first one of the kind, The Old Dark House, Timed for today, it is a story of counterespionage in an English industrial town of the North Midlands. Bad leakage of information made it important that Humphrey Neyland be sent there to size up the situation and to link the various sources of information into the whole picture. Gretley proved more fertile soil than even he had been led to expect, and the deeper into the plot the reader goes, the more involved he becomes, suspecting now this person, now that, accepting, discarding, playing hunches, until Neyland beats the local police to the solution of the identity of the major criminal in the ring. Plenty of violence, narrow escapes and so forth. Straight entertainment value, with a sound sense of reflecting the feel of the town and its people.

Pub Date: Feb. 3, 1942

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Harper

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 1, 1942

Categories: FICTION