James Agate

The Sunday Chronicle wrote: One of the best detective stories of today, written by a master of the craft. Others praising the book (including James Agate ) once again commented that MA had gone...

At a time that MA had stopped writing both the film story and the mass-circulation serial, she saw herself as making another new start in her career with this book. She called it a novel...

Favourable newspaper reviews came from Compton Mackenzie and James Agate . The Daily Mail review pleased ME particularly by reproducing her frontispiece (though they did not know it to be hers).

Theatre World found this immeasurably Dodie Smith's best play, expressing admiration for her vivid sense of character and situation.James Agate wrote a flattering review that even compared some of her characters to...

The play dramatizes various temptations for an accountant's family over the course of a single day. Despite DS 's claim that she did not write self-portraits, she admits that she did try to base...

This, like all its immediate predecessors, met with excellent reviews, even though Hugh Walpole regretted its lack of plot.James Agate uncharacteristically wrote: All the time I was reading it I purred like my...