16 OCTOBER 1982, page 26

Thrillers

Harriet Waugh D etective fiction, although a curious and agreeable backwater within the noisy and violent ambit of the crime novel, does suffer a mild inferiority complex about......

Piscatorial

J. G. Links A Venetian Bestiary Jan Morris (Thames & Hudson £8.95) T he theme of this 'epilogue' to Jan Morris's 35 years of writing about Venice is the special affinity of the......