'Murder in Broad Daylight'
By G. D. H. COLE
IT IS not often that a writer so distinguished as G. D. H. Cole , who has given to the world serious publications on social and political issues, turns also, and successfully, to detective fiction.
He is University Reader in Economics at Oxford ; Vice-President of the Workers' Educational Association ; Hon. Secretary of the New Fabian Research Bureau ; and a member of the Economic Advisory Council. Publications to come from his pen since 1913 hear such titles as ' The World of Labour' ; ' Chao3 and Order in Industry ' ; ' William Cobbett ' ; ' Robert Owen ' ; ' A Short History of the British Working Class Movement'.
Nor is it the case that when he collaborates with Mrs. Cole he seeks a lighter field for his labours, for she has written on topics just as serious, and is as distinguished as her husband. For instance, she was co-author with him of ' The Intelligent Man's Review of Modern Europe ', published last year. Yet these two, separately and together, write thrillers with fecundity and zest. Their latest, ' Death in the Quarry ', the Crime Club selection for May, is being reviewed as we go to press.