13 FEBRUARY 1959, Page 30

tt's a Crime

The Evil Eye. By Boileau and Narcejac, (Hutch inson, 12s. 6d.) Two contes in one cover, by th diabolically ingenious authors of The Prisoner: one a taut little piece about a paralytic who ha seen what memory dare not remind him of, an' the other a macabre evocation of the Romano period, with unaccountable goines-on in the ivy clad château.