The noted mystery reviewer of the New York Herald-Tribune and other papers explained his enthusiasm further:
“To the best of our knowledge and belief, it is the first thriller in which a Hollywood gynecologist is shot three times and killed while another medico is performing an operation upon a movie star in the same room. Some situation, what?
“Dr. Peter Merritt, of New Rochelle, went to the West Coast at the request of his sister-in-law, stood in at the first murder, got mixed up in others, and generally supped full on horrors. Detective is Daniel Webster, of whom we are told: ‘He was always watching what was going on in the world around him, so that you had the feeling that he was not paying attention, and yet he was not missing a thing. Very odd’ Odd is right, but he finds out whodunit. Some of the scenes have a big mystery impact!”
Richard Sales PASSING STRANGE is a brilliant, tense, witty, yet daringly realistic novel of the movie colony, medical mysteries, and murder.
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The noted mystery reviewer of the New York Herald-Tribune and other papers explained his enthusiasm further:
“To the best of our knowledge and belief, it is the first thriller in which a Hollywood gynecologist is shot three times and killed while another medico is performing an operation upon a movie star in the same room. Some situation, what?
“Dr. Peter Merritt, of New Rochelle, went to the West Coast at the request of his sister-in-law, stood in at the first murder, got mixed up in others, and generally supped full on horrors. Detective is Daniel Webster, of whom we are told: ‘He was always watching what was going on in the world around him, so that you had the feeling that he was not paying attention, and yet he was not missing a thing. Very odd’ Odd is right, but he finds out whodunit. Some of the scenes have a big mystery impact!”
Richard Sales PASSING STRANGE is a brilliant, tense, witty, yet daringly realistic novel of the movie colony, medical mysteries, and murder.