The Long Body. By Helen Mccloy. (gollancz, 10s. 6d.)...
suspense thriller, from a writer who can usually be relied on to cajole the reader into accepting an impossible plot before stunning him with a rational solution. Here, however,......
An Artist Dies. By John Rhode. (geoffrey Bles, 10s. 6d.)
Dogged detection by Inspector Jimmy Waghorn, after a com - mercially successful painter, much envied by colleagues at the local Art Club, is found dead in a farmer's......
Eyes And Legs
EYE WITNESS. By Noel Monks. (Frederick Muller, 16s.) AMONG the illusions that die hard is the one about war correspon- dents being the romantic, adventurous figures they were in......
The Frazer Acquittal. By Stephen Ransome. (gollancz, 10s....
novel which leans heavily on contrivance. A New England lawyer, engaged simultaneously in defending a client charged with murder and shielding the woman he believes to be......
It's A Crime
THE BLUNDERER. By Patricia Highsmith. (Cresset Press, 15s.) Relentlessly single-minded novel of suspense, as tactically ingenious as Miss Highsmith's earlier Strangers on a......
A Stitirr Of Guilt. By John Bude. (macdonald, 10s. 6d.)
Murder of an art student in an English country town, setting a satisfactorily tricky problem for a cautious police inspector. Reliably constructed, in spite of a solution which......
Darling Clementine. By Dorothy Eden. (macdonald, 9s. 6d.)...
melodrama, with a tearful and bedridden heroine who worries about her 'tainted blood' inherited from a pirate ancestor, hears ghostly voices in the middle of the night, and......
The House That Died. By Josephine Gill. (crime Club, 10s.
6d.) Murderous happenings in an old house in Boston's Back Bay, where first the aged Miss Bellamy's companion and then Miss Bellamy herself are found mysteriously dead.......
Hungarian Threnody
THE MEMOIRS OF MICHAEL KAROLYI. (Jonathan Cape, 35s.) MEMOIRS. By Admiral Nicholas Horthy. (Hutchinson, 21s.) BUT for the war most of us would look on Admiral Horthy as the head......
The Case Of The Negligent Nymph. By Erle Stanley Gardner.
(Heinemann, 10s. 6d.) 'Boy, the way you managed to keep Gloster all tied up in knots, even when he had you on the run as far as the facts were concerned, is one of the greatest......
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