14 JUNE 1975, page 13

Fiction

Art, not life Peter Ackroyd Jesus on a Stick Ian Cochrane (Routledge and Kegan Paul £3.50) The Dry Conspiracy Frederick Broadie (Chatto and Windus £3.25) Here are two writers......

Crime Compendium

A "favourite" crime or thriller writer is, to me, one the whole corpus of whose work I sit down and re-read every now and again. Next in line to the favourites — or, as I would......