19 OCTOBER 1956, Page 26

BREAKFAST WITH A CORPSE. By Max Murray. (Michael Joseph, 12s.

6d.) Max Murray's death this year was a loss to those who had a taste for his neat plots, dry dialogue, and touch of disillusioned wit. There is one more of his novels still to come after this, which is the pleasant mixture-as-before; where the background is Nice (more deftly sketched in than by Mr. Bude); a corpse is hauled in by the morning fishermen's net; and some desiccated Edwardian habitues of the Promenade des Anglais provide a sort of Greek chorus.