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Horses in Fact and Fiction. Compiled by Ake Runnquist. (Cape, 35s.) The Great Horse Omnibus. Edited by Thurston Macauley. (Eyre and Spottiswoode, 25s.) English Love Poems.......
The Saracen Shadow. By Shane Martin. (col- Lins, 10s. 6d.)
The author creates an entirely new first growth of . the Medoc so as to stage a series of mediwvally melodramatic murders at the château (where they are unconscionably behind-......
Lady Killer. By William Hardy. (hamish Hamilton, 12s....
but predictable little number about yet another mild-mannered man- an American professor of mathematics this time -who plans to murder his tedious wife. The campus background,......
It's A Crime
4.50 From Paddington. By Agatha Christie. (Collins, 12s. 6d.) The plots are so improbable, the characters so puppet-like, the style so stilted and the coincidences cluster so......
Suddenly A Widow. By George Harmon Coxe. (hammond And...
10s. 6d.) Young wife's elderly husband is dead, leaving a letter that accuses her of infidelity. If it is suicide, she is proved a wanton; if murder, she is the first sus- pect.......
Landed Gently. By Alan Hunter. (cassell , 1 Is. 6d.) There
was 'something suspiciously like moisture' in the cockney sergeant's eye over the Chief Inspector's kindness to the kiddies; the American lootenant talks about 'a real live......
The Mythmaker. By Sarah Gainham. (barker, 12s. 6d.) A...
political killing in the rococo hugger-mugger of immediately postwar Vienna, a place and a period that this admirable writer knows inside out, and writes about with feeling.......
The Shadow Of Time. By Christopher Landon. (heinemann,...
A child is kidnapped and must first be sought, in the alleys of Rye and the valley of the Loire, and then rescued. The hack- neyed theme is made fresh, moving and exciting,......
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