11 SEPTEMBER 1959, page 27

A I D Macabre. By Frederic Mullally. (seeker And Warburg....

Long, sexy saga of Marianne. who sleeps with practically everybody before being bumped oft, at nineteen--who done it being discovered by newspaperman who sleeps with only one......

Champagne For One. By Rex Stout. (collins, 10s. 6d.) Rather

slight and pretty improbable but. as always, very readable adventure of Nero Wolfe's, with Archie Goodwin sure that the girl he'd watched drink a glass of champagne and drop......

Comic Turn

Between Then and Now. By Alba de Uspedes. Translated by Isabel Quigly. (Cape, I3s. 6d.) The Bitter Conquest. By Charity Blackstock. (Hodder and Stoughton, 15s.) To Keep This......

Journey With A Pen

Journey With a Pistol. By Neil McCallum. (Gollancz, 1.6s.) bkviousLy and brilliantly written, this is the war memoir of a very young officer very much alone in North Africa. War......

It's A Crime

The Big Bankroll. By Leo Katcher. (Gollancz, 21s.) Many people must know who killed Arnold Rothstein in a Fifth Avenue hotel in 1928, but the law still doesn't. The......

Death And The Visiting Firemen. By H. R. F. Keating.

(Gol lanes, I 5s.) Preposterously contrived and ludicrously mannered fantasy in which Levantine travel-agent gets his by pistol-shot from an olde-worlde stage-coach which has......

Gideon's Staff. By J. J. Marric. (hodder And Stoughton, 12s.

6d.) 'J. J. Marric' is John Creasey, like almost everybody else. This is one of his series of documentary novels about Scotland . Yard, with Commander Gideon, a sort of poor......