16 MAY 1958, Page 25

A Shriek of Tyres. By Douglas Rutherford. (Collins, 10s. 6d.)

Road-racing thriller—Silver- stone, Le Mans, the Mille Miglia—by a writer who deals superbly with speed and action. Not so good on human relationships as his excellent previous novels; would anyone marry a girl who might have been married before, and not bother to ask if she had? But this is the best writer I know on a sport few devotees of which are articulate : the Whyte- Melville of the open throttle.