A poet turns to elegies with the atmospheric and ingenious story of murder in a select hotel colony for artists and writers...

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DAGGER OF THE MIND

A poet turns to elegies with the atmospheric and ingenious story of murder in a select hotel colony for artists and writers in the west. (Colorado?) His artists in undress are no angels -- as a leading critic, who himself contemplated the murder of his wife, is killed. The cast alternate in the narration, and include Wessex of the police, a backbiting bunch of poseurs and eccentrics, a dipso-commercial artist, an ex-convict and a dope fiend. Clever parody -- originality of build up.

Pub Date: Jan. 29, 1940

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Random House

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Jan. 1, 1940

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