12 SEPTEMBER 1957, Page 27

Constables Don't Count. By Alex Fraser. (Bles, I Is. 6d.)

Quiet little Home Counties murder mystery, solved by village constable who is, as all too fictionally often, a cut above customary constabulary status and who gets, therefore, not only promotion but upper-middle-class bride as his reward. Neatly done, for all its triteness, and there are some pleasantly plausible commoner coppers—chaps more like us.