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A Palpable Hit

Kevin Jackson PRETTY GIRL IN CRIMSON ROSE (8) by Sandy Balfour Atlantic Books. £1299, pp. 198, ISBN 1843540363 I f you happen to be one of those maddeningly quick-witted or......

Claws Unsheathed In Fleet Street

Simon Heifer PLAYING THE GAME by Sarah Sands Macmillan, 110.99, pp. 247, ISBN 0333905547 S ometimes I have lounged in other people's bathrooms and read a few pages of what I am......