13 DECEMBER 1957, Page 29

In the Queen's Parlour. By Ellery Queen. (Gol- lancz, I5s.)

Fifty fragments of the flimsiest sort of journalism, most of them very passé, spread very thinly over 180 pages, including such essays as one on how many fictional detectives are named Fox or Wolf. At fifteen bob a copy, this short-weight rag-bag of a book is a damned. impertinence.