24 JULY 1959, page 31

Solving Had Not Victorian Papa Been Shot By Masked Stranger

when he needed to utter only one more word of the family secret and thus make everything plain. Not a true detective story, for other vital clues are hidden from the reader, and......

Drawn-out Murder Story Distinguished By Its Zanzibar...

characters popping out on cue to buy cuttle fish or mangoes, and thus allowing the author to get in her descriptive bits. Nice, summery read, with some of the appeal of a good......

The Old Lady Reports

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT THE Old Lady of Thread- needle Street has actually begun to dress herself a little more in the fashion. She is still wearing an old- fashioned veil to hide......