Show Tense Action in Rohmer Story Bat Eat Wing by Sax Rohmer carries tho the death curse of the High Priest of Voodoo The manor woman who found a II bat wing pinned upon the tho door was thus marked and inevitably met a horrible end That and the presence of Colin Cohn Camber an American of the type of Edgar Allan Poe who is the most beloved character in the story stor and who is under suspicion from fram the start are the outstanding features features fea fea- tures s of this great novel When Colonel Juan a Cuban landowner dispossessed after acter the Span Span- ish-American ish war came to Paul Harley internationally famous as a crime Investigator investigator he told of the curse that the native native na na- tive laborers had laid upon him and how they sought to bring upon him the Voodoo vengeance They followed him ever everywhere every where and at regular intervals he found pinned to his door a bat bats bat's s wing the thi natie na- na tIe ti symbol of death 1 Shortly afterward true to the letter of or orthe the Voodoo warning is killed From then on in ever tenser action a mystery as powerful in its eerie sug suggestion es- es tion as strange as any Rohmer has unraveled unraveled un un- un raveled tangled in the threads of an unusual love story stor unfolds to a climax of ot uncanny power Doubleday Page Co Garden City N. N NY Y |