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From The Lonely Places

Nansen: A Family Portrait. By Liv Nansen Hoyer. (Longmans, 30s.) A NEW book about Nansen might seem a mere move to exploit recent events at the Pole. The error would be......

It's A Crime

Slow Burner. By William Haggard. (Cassell, 12s. 6d.) Commendable upper-middle-class sort of MI5 entertainment, with senior civil service careers at stake; sardonic and. allusive......

Papalism Triumphant ?

The Vatican Revolution. By Geddes MacGregor. (Macmillan, 21s.) IT was on July 18, 1870, that the final vote-about the Pope's infallibility was taken at the Vatican Council. On......

Suspicious Circumstances. By Patrick Quentin. (gollancz,...

high-spirited social comedy as crime story, with a superior sort of Dietrich glamour-matron whose Billie Burkc manner is deceptive; some high-class Hollywood bitches and lushes,......