The murder occurs very late, and thus the central section seems desultory, even novelettish ( poor little rich girl, gypsy's curse, etc . ).
2.
The two stories with detective interest are the often reprinted " Philomel Cottage " ( good but rather novelettish in style ), and the clever " Accident ""
3.
I am not aware of any first hand documentation by Wagner ( in his letters or autobiographical writings ) that make any reference to Leah David or the novelettish sequence of events ( Dutchman, dog ) referred to in this article.
4.
He calls Compton Bennett's film " a poor and empty adaptation of a poor and empty play " which enshrines the worst characteristics of the British film, and condones the worst qualities of the least representative section of the British race . Chiding the producers, Sydney Box and his sister Betty, who also wrote the screenplay, he describes it as a " novelettish distortion " of a contemporary problem.
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