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[With] Innes one can be confident of an elegant tale which, though easily putdownable without itchy suspense, is almost certain to be picked up again; and so it is with Sheiks and Adders, whose locale is a vulgar garden-party. But how, in such a phantasmagoria of improbability, even such a policeman (or ex-policeman) as Appleby may judge plausibility from reality is not to be known.
Marghanita Laski, "Feeling Like Death," in The Listener, Vol. 108, No. 2771, July 29, 1982, p. 27.∗
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