24 AUGUST 1956, Page 20

ANOTHER MYSTERY IN SUVA. By Frank Arthur. (Heinemann, 12s. 6d.)

Nice old-fashioned detective stuff in Suva, capital of Fiji, with Fijians, Sikhs, a few sweating white men, some in- betweens, and a digger's-eye-view, at least a generation out of date, of a booming blimp of an English Inspector-General of Constabulary. Most readable, and Suva is a delectable back- ground to contemplate from the deck-chair on a frost-bitten