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Face Of The Bard

The Days of Dylan Thomas: A Pictorial Biography. By Bill Read. Photographs by Rollie McKenna. (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 30s.) THE text of the latest necrology of Dylan Thomas is......

Family Skeletons. By Patrick Quentin. (gol- Lancz, 16s.)...

adopted into a family of incredible snobbery, commits the enormity of marrying a British girl with an unknown and possibly unsavoury background. From this be- ginning, murder is......

Up The Circus

The Looking-Glass War. By John Le Carrel. (Heinemann, I8s.) BACK in the Zone again with -Le Carrel in The Looking-Glass War, but this time with a run- down military intelligence......

The Third Possibility. By Selwyn Jepson.

(W. H. Allen, I5s.) When a Cabinet Minister is approached by blackmailers, something must be done quickly—and discreetly. Something was —and it was the amateur investigators who......

Death Deals In Diamonds. By Bradshaw Jones. (john Long,...

A splendid tale of diamond smuggling between this country and Holland, with authentic details of the diamond and jewellery trade. HESTER MAKEIG......

Death On The Champs Elysies. By Francis Didelot,...

W. G. Corp. (Macdonald, 16s.) Commissaire Bignon is faced with a seem- ingly insoluble problem. The pattern of the crime was disturbingly blurred but the criminal had not......

Everyone Suspect. By Nedra Tyre. (gollancz, 16s.) Martin...

the death of his wife, found himself living in an empty world. Blamed for the murder of a girl, his life became a 'nightmare alternated with hallucination.' Per- sistent......

It's A Crime

Agents and Patients [he Man in the Mirror. By Frederick Ayer. (Gollancz, 18s.) Here's a potential rival treading on Le Carrel's heels with an intelligent and riveting cold war......