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Mr. McGuire who is a novelist of considerable popularity in Europe, is a South Australian, and is at present a lecturer in English literature at Adelaide Unversity and a research scholar. His mystery stories have been at times recommended by a British literary association and have been translated into several European languages, being especially popular in France.

In the story to be published to-morrow he will be found to have a light and pleasant touch with a cultured style, the narrative being presented in an entertaining way far removed from the ordiary police or detective account of a crime and its unravelling. In "The Seacliff Mystery," which is the title of the new serial, there is a melodious air of quiet country life in England tunning through the tale of the finding of one member of the small community apparently mmdered. The village of Seacliff has its "society," which clusters around and about the golf club, its members being mostly men retired from "the Services," and the character sketching is in many chapters the best part of the book, though the mystery is well maintained and the reader held in suspense almost to the last line.

"Herald's" New Serial : Story by Paul McGuire, The Sydney Morning Herald, 17 July 1935, p9.