G. R. de Bruin Books

The House Guests At Styles Seemed Perfectly To Captain Hastings: There Was His Own Daughter Judith, An Inoffensive Ornithologist Called Norton, Dashing Mr Allerton, Brittle Miss Cole, Doctor Franklin And His Fragile Wife Barbara, Nurse Craven, Colonel Luttrell And His Charming Wife Daisy, And The Charismatic Boyd-Carrington. So Hastings Was Shocked When Poirot Declared That One Of Them Was A Five-Times Murderer. True, The Ageing Detective Was Crippled With Arthritis, But Had His Deductive Instincts Finally Deserted Him?&

"Traces Picasso's life and work from his childhood to his last drawings, and suggests that Picasso was a 'vertical invader' from Europe's feudal past, a 'primitive' man who burst upon a complex civilization and conquered it. Also analyzes the price Picasso paid for that conquest: in exile, isolation, and loneliness. Shows how the phenomenon of Picasso's success was connected less with his art than with the nostalgic nineteenth-century idea of genius that he evoked in others" --back cover