1 MARCH 1957, Page 25

Borrow the Night. By Helen Nielsen. (Gollancz, 12s. 6d.) Brilliantly

ingenious, brilliantly readable, utterly incredible murder-puzzle : who threatened that the judge would be killed on the very morning that the man he had condemned went to the chair? And why? And will he? This author can work miracles with an absurd plot : she could be a world-beater with a likelier one.