20 JANUARY 1961, page 24

The Smartest Grave. By R. J. White. (collins, 12s. 6d.)

Many 'period' novels have been written around real murders, and the joint winner in Collins's crime-novel competition for dons is a fictionalised version of the Moat Farm Murder......

The Sailcloth Shroud. By Charles Williams. (cassell, 12s....

three men who sailed a ketch from Panama to the Texas coast, one dies at sea and another is murdered on land. The third is suspected by the police and beaten up by gangsters in......

Investment Systems (2)

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT ALTHOUGH the old cyclical investment policy may be inapplicable today, the new shortened business cycles created by the alternation of monetary measures of......