21 DECEMBER 1956, page 24

It's A Crime

MY FRIEND MAIGRET. By Simenon. (Hamish Hamilton, 10s. 6d.) The sun-drenched mistral-swept island of Porquerolles is almost as exotically outlandish a place to mackintoshed......

The Dark Window. By Thomas B. Walsh. (hamish Hamilton , 1

ls. 6d.) In the absence of a moratorium on remarkable resell''• blances, successful writers of crime stories—and Mr. Walsh has been very successful—should assume a self-denying......

The Father He Loves, And This Distinguished Novel Is...

with the tensions that led to the crime and the remorse that follows it. Not precisely a novel either of mystery or of detection, but a crime story in the most serious—and yet......

Squinting At Usa

AMERICA AND THE BRITISH LEFT. By Henry Pelling. (Adam and Charles Black, 18s.) IT has sometimes been claimed that one of the traditional differences between the British......

To Find A Killer. By Lionel White. (boardman, 10s. 6d.)

B liant, brutal story of murder by remote control in a New Y( of pimps and perverts and pornographic photographs, wh cops are either corrupt or given to kicking what they call......

Rebecca's Pride. By Donald Mcnutt Douglass. (eyre And...

6d.) There are clues in the calypsos sung to a steel band and a good deal of rum-drinking, on this particular one of the Virgin Islands, which is owned by the United States ,......

Dead As A Dinosaur. By F. And R. Lockridge. (hutchinson ,

10s. 6d.) Mr. and Mrs. North are in the 'Thin Man' tradition of American wise-cracking husband-and-wife detectives; thi s latest adventure of theirs, stalking murder among......

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THE SACRIFICE. By Simenon. (Hamish Hamilton, 13s. 6d.) 1 short novels—nearly twice as many pages as the Maigret stc for only three shillings more—which are not precisely detect......

Imagine A Man. By Nigel Fitzgerald. (collins, 10s. 6d.) Too

ma characters (and too tittle proof-reading) for perfect clarity; takes a solid ten pages or so of explanation at the end to reso the preposterous plot—but, all the same, Nigel......

The Pub Crawler. By Maurice Procter. (hutchinson, 10s....

mystery set in some such Yorkshire industi town as Leeds (for some reason camouflaged as 'Airechester') likeable and probable young bobby-hunting tough but not co characterised......

Death At The Isthmus. By George Harmon Coxe. (hammc And

Hammond, 10s. 6d.) Also set in the Caribbean, a straig forward American detective story, not too far-fetched, not v violent, with likeable characters, and a little drinking and......