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Emergency Exit. By Harry Carmichael. (Col- lins, 10s. 6d.) A

well-organised puzzle about whether the pilot who died in a Sussex plane crash had engineered an artistic suicide or boozed himself into his bump. Good character-drawing of suburban types and some nice niffy red herrings make up to some extent for unlikely and otiose middle-of-the-book murder.