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Sad Gothic Privacy

Bebo's Girl, By Carlo Cassola. Translated by Marguerite Waldman. (Collins, 16s.) The Shame of our Wounds. By Arthur Roth. (Hutchinson, 16s.J A Small Armageddon. By Mordecai......

Death In A Dry Season

FOR detective-story readers, this January, like most others, is best treated as catch-up-with-the- classics month, for among the few new books published there is little that is......