Apostles Of Violence. By Douglas Perring. (hale, 10s....
the lurid and ill-drawn wrapper is a well-written, well-imagined, though slightly over-plotted novel of adventure in the Northern Italy of the Allied occupation, when partisan......
It's A Crime
Underdog. By W. R. Burnett. (Macdonald, 10s. 6d.) The cartographer of the asphalt jungle maps out another of the big-city landscapes in which ward bosses with luscious wives run......
Cold Steel. By James Warren. (collins, 10s. 6d.) Very Good,
briskly written, mystery-cum-thriller which begins with a drunken husband's insuper- able, and very violent, objections to his pretty wife's going on the stage, and takes in......
The House Of Crystal. By Hans Kades. (angus And Robertson,
13s. 6d.) Over-long, over-popu- lated ponderosity translated from the German about a suicide that was possibly a murder in a scientific stronghold high in the Austrian Alps. A......
She Died Because . . . By Kenneth Hopkins. (macdonald,
10s. 6d.) Relentlessly funny caper, with a brace of comic-strip absent-minded profes- sors peering over their spectacles at the clues the cops had missed, and having their......
Maigret's Little Joke. By Simenon. (hamish Hamilton, I...
Slender little piece, in which Chief-Inspector Maigret, on leave, idling in the cafés of Paris, helps to solve a murder mystery by reading the local newspapers and sending......
Shadow Of A Lady. By Holly Roth. (hamish Hamilton, 12s.
6d.) A red-haired young woman disappears in France; a red-haired young woman's corpse turns up in a trunk in Norfolk; and a lively young American woman's priggish English lover......
Dead And Not Buried, By H. F. M. Prescott. (eyre
and Spottiswoode, 12s. 6d.) A whiff from Cold Comfort Farm blows through this one crime story committed by a distinguished historical novelist twenty years ago, and now......
In The Queen's Parlour. By Ellery Queen. (gol- Lancz, I5s.)
Fifty fragments of the flimsiest sort of journalism, most of them very passé, spread very thinly over 180 pages, including such essays as one on how many fictional detectives......
Not So Sparkling
The Diamond Smugglers. By Ian Fleming. (Cape, 12s. 6d.) THE substance of Mr. Fleming's book is a series of reminiscences by a pseudonymous 'John Blaize,' describing his......
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