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Sinners And Shrouds. By Jonathan Latimer. (methuen, 12s....

not to say . breezy, adventures of sardonically tough Chicago newspaperman who wakes one morning with a hangover and a body in the bed. Enormously fast, embellished with black......

Rodeolatry

LONG before Davy Crockett got his grip on the young idea this land was threatened by a generation of young Buffalo Bills, readers of fourpenny `books' which were the chief......

High And Low

IT is just thirty years ago since Piofessor Norman Sykes awakened interest in the episcopate of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries with his excellent biography......

Murder '97. By Frank Gruber. (arthur Barker, 10s. 6d.) This

rather more machine-made American thriller-cum-detective story is also about books, or rather a book — an Horatio Alger first edition, the chase after which, by a refreshingly......

The Missing Formula. By Jacques Decrest. (hammond And...

6d.) It may merely be translation from the French (very good, incidentally, by the talented Delano Ames) that gives a whiff of Simenon to this quite simple tale of Monsieur......

Dewey Death. By Charity Blackstock. (heinemann, 12s. 6d.)...

novel that gives new twist to old theme of corpse- in-the-library, for the library is a sort of public library plus, functioning on Mr. Dewey's decimal system of classification.......

It's A Crime

SHE DIED WITHOUT LIGHT. By Nieves Mathews. (Hodder and Stoughton, lls. 6d.) Poison in the pension: aged Swiss landlady's death by arsenic contrived and explained in a notably......