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The Turn Of A Card

David Spanier BIG DEAL by Anthony Holden Bantam Press, £14.99, pp.272 F or openers, I must declare my interest in beating the royalties out of the author. I have played quite a......

Good Crime Writers At Their Best

Harriet Waugh DEATH'S DARKEST FACE by Julian Symonds Macmillan, 02.95, pp.272 BONES AND SILENCE by Reginald Hill Collins, £12.95, pp.366 CURSE AND DARKNESS by Leslie Grant......