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The Premier And Maigret In Court. By Simenon. (hamish...

12s. 6d. each.) The one is little more than a character sketch of aII ageing—indeed, a dying—French politician, de- termined that his obvious successor shall not, in fact,......

Killing At The Big Tree. By David Mccarthy. (heinemann, 13s.

6d.) White woman is killed in small Southern town where, whenever there has been a murder before, a Negro has paid for it. New sheriff is determined to find out who, in fact,......

It's A Crime

The Half Hunter. By John Sherwood. (Gollancz, 13s. 6d.) One would never know it from the wrapper or the flyleaf, but this is by an ex- perienced and versatile author, whose last......

A Question Of Manner

Any Advance? By Geoffrey Johns. (Hutchinson, 16s.) To start by asking how much the Miltonism of Thyrsis or The Scholar-Gipsy detracts from either poem may seem remote; but there......

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The Accused. By Harold R. Daniels. (Dent 12s. 6d.) Grim courtroom story, with the eviden gradually revealing, and the accused's memori echoing in greater depth, the relationship......

Mamie. By Winston Graham. (hodder Al Stoughton, 16s.)...

readat character study of young woman thief, a-moral ta her employers' pay-rolls, but highly puritanic as to her favours. It may be that both the lig fingers and the sexual......

The Dead Past. By Jean Scholey. (heinemann, 16s.) A...

adventurer is found dead in a Land-Rover in a remote corner of Tanganyika, and the District Commissioner has to find out who did it, and why: African or European; because of......