21 SEPTEMBER 1956, Page 24

MURDER COMES TO EDEN. By Leslie Ford. (Collins, 10s. 6d.)

Sentimental yet exciting piece about how 'development' threatens a honeysuckled corner of 'Old Virginny,' along with its sweet, eccentric old lady and couple of charming children, and uncovers in the process an old murder mystery. Enormously fast and agreeably unviolent.