The Hours After Midnight. By Joseph Hayes. (andre...
6d.) Short, taut, fraught little number about a crazy, mixed-up kidnapping. Sentimentalised, in the folksy American way, but suspenseful: a slender half-guinea's worth, though.......
Death Walks By The River. By Vicars Bell. (faber, 13s.
6d.) Coincidence plays too large a part in this otherwise pleasant, unexciting, agree- ably written tale of murder in an English village, with some pleasant cricket-match and......
Dead Storage. By George Bagby. (boardman, 10s. 6d.) The Body
in the Greenwich village apart- ment was that of a man who had been systemati - cally tortured; one way of finding out who had done it was to deduce whether death had come......
Smiling Damned Villain. By Rupert Croft- Cooke. Till The Day
I Die. By Robert Markel , (Seeker and Warburg, 18s. each.) Each the biography of a criminal. Mr. Croft-Cooke tells the story of Paul Lund, who earned his living by every kind of......
Venetian Blind. By William Haggard. (cassell, 10s. 6d.)...
service setting for compli- cated but bloodless thriller concerned with who's selling what secrets to whom. London and Venice backgrounds; dim hero; excruciatingly improb- able......
Symbols And Sensibility
Epoch and Artist. By David Jones. (Faber, 25s.) PIETY, a proper reverence for the sources and nourishment of life, forms much of the basis of morality and religion. Almost......
It's A Crime The Sands Of Windee. By Arthur Upfield:
(Angus and Robertson, 15s.) Bony and the Mouse. By Arthur Upfield. (Heinemann, 13s. 6d.) Arthur Upfield had a long and successful middle period in which he captivated us with......
Two Studies In Crime. By Yseult Bridges (hutchinson,...
the Swiss valet , stripped to the skin to avoid bloodstains when he murdered Lord William Russell in 1840. Yseult Bridges believes that William Herbert Wallace did the same to......
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