14 APRIL 1979, page 22

Cook's Death

Jan Morris The Murder of Captain James Cook Richard Hough (Macmillan £7.95) One by one the sea lays its stories upon the desk of Mr Hough the Battleship Man, and one by one he......

In The Box

Conor Cruise O'Brien Death in Paris Richard Cobb (Oxford £4.95) In the Archives de la Seine in Paris there is a box bearing the title `Basse-Geole de la ,Seine, proces-verbaux......

Hack Pack

Benny Green Wit's End: Days and Nights of the Algonquin Round Table James R. Gaines (Harcourt Brace £8.40) The disproportionate attention lavished over the years on the......