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The Troubled House. By Kage 13ooton. (66 Lancz, 12s. 6d.)

Faintly Rebecca-ish piece abon strange New England household, in which , hu band and beautiful young wife are at mysteriou' daggers drawn, and it seems that mischief wit be......

Small Town D.a. By Robert Traver. - (faber 15s.) Rather...

(and proof - reading), but humane and humorous anecdotal account o fourteen years as District Attorney in remoter Michigan, with some rollicking rural rapes, murder or so and......

Tt's A Crime

The Evil Eye. By Boileau and Narcejac, (Hutch inson, 12s. 6d.) Two contes in one cover, by th diabolically ingenious authors of The Prisoner: one a taut little piece about a......

Dragoman Pass. By Eric Williams. (cdlins , 15s.) The...

into Hungary and Bul• garia a couple of years ago, and didn't like the people much or the regimes at all. No reason , whY he should, but his fictionalised account (in which he......

Third Crime Lucky. By Anthony Gilbert. (collins, 10s....

amiable Fred and Bessie get a job looking after an old man, and the old man dies, as had others. The smart-aka lawyer Arthur Crook, as flamboyant as ever, but much more......

Shakespeare Moralised

The Shakespearean Ethic. By John Vyvyan. (Chatto and Windus, 18s.) The Shakespearean Ethic. By John Vyvyan. (Chatto and Windus, 18s.) MR. VYVYAN undertakes to refute A. C.......

Out Brief Candle. By John And Elizabeth Rosenberg....

13s. 6d.) The mur- dered man had spurned his mistress, flouted his wife, insulted his secretary and inexplicably asked three old enemies to come and stay. All had motive,......