10 FEBRUARY 1956, Page 24

AN ARTIST DIES. By John Rhode. (Geoffrey Bles, 10s. 6d.)

Dogged detection by Inspector Jimmy Waghorn, after a com- mercially successful painter, much envied by colleagues at the local Art Club, is found dead in a farmer's chicken-house. Mr. Rhode, a one-paced writer, seldom cuts any corners in an investigation : this one, though thorough-going, seems slow.