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Vicious Circuit. By Clodagh Gibson Jarvie. (boardman,...

English first novel of mystery and suspense, outstandingly good for 0 background of racing-cars, drivers, mechanics and brittle breed of blondes known, it seems, as pit-popsies.......

The Law Of The Streets. By Auguste Le Breton. (collins,

10s. 6d.) Paris underworld at some un- specified time in past when couple could have blow-out on twenty francs. Episode saga of couple of sewer-rat waifs who cadge and cringe,......

The New Adam

The Transformations of Man. By Lewis Mum- ford. (Allen and Unwin, 15s.) THoucti based upon archaeology and history, this is essentially a book about the future; two-thirds of......

The Late Uncle Max. By Mary Fitt. (macdonald, 10s. 6d.)

Archaeology is all, these days, and here is yet another of those deaths at the diggings that are becoming as frequent as were dull thuds in the country-house libraries of the......

Sweet Incendiary

As the son of a keen Puritan controversialist, Crashaw knew by heart the tricks and tempers of the religious quarrels of the seventeenth cen- tury in England. At Cambridge he......

It's A Crime

The Big Bite. By Charles Williams. (Cassell, 12s. 6d.) One of the toughest and tensest American thrillers since the film of Double Indemnity. Relentless blackmailer matches wits......

The Colour Of Murder. By Julian Symons. (collins, 10s. 6d.)

Resounding return to form by one of our most ingenious and stylish—but not most consistent—home-grown crime novelists, especially good at middle middle-class, sub-urban,......

Maigret Goes To School. By Simenon. (hamish Hamilton,...

What new can be said of the Master himself? His mackintoshed sage goes down to oyster country on Atlantic coast and solves murder mystery by thinking himself back into his own......