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| | Amazon.com: The Blood-Dimmed Tide: Books: Rennie Airth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16) |
 | | While Airth fails, oddly, to exploit a couple of opportunities for interesting plot turns at book's end, his psychological portrait of the murderer imbues Tide with a fine pathos, and the backdrop of Nazi power-grabbing sets the stage for what is supposed to be a third and final Madden yarn. |
 | | Airth melds the world of the serial killer with the current affairs of the 1930's, with implications that there is more afoot than meets the eye, a protected identity escaping behind porous European borders. |
 | | But, on the whole, Airth does not convey the texture of the times, of the impact of changing technology, of the erosion of British ascendancy, of the place of talking motion pictures and recordings, of the era of radio, not even of the residing nausea with war that became Appeasement. |
| www.amazon.com /Blood-Dimmed-Tide-Rennie-Airth/dp/0670899968 (2927 words) |
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