A Gentleman Called. By Dorothy Salisbury Davis. (secker...
12s. 6d.) Light , bright, faintly fantasticated New York mystery with a succession of murders, aseptically off-stage and some cosy Connecticut characters.......
It's A Crime
Maigret's First Case and Inquest on Bouvet. B Simenon. (Hamish Hamilton, 1 Is. 6d. each.) On ' of this pair of novels seems to have been trans lated by an Englishman, and one by......
Brave New Worlds
Red Carpet to China. By Michael Croft. (Long- mans, 21s.) The Chinese Smile. By Nigel Cameron. (Hutchin- son, 21s.) CHINA is evidently a particularly demanding exer- cise for a......
The Power Gods. By Bud Clifton. (eyre And Spottiswoode, 12s.
6d.) Nevada's equivalents o f our own (by comparison) rather disarminglY decent and dandyish Teddy-boys are motor bicycle-borne adolescent hoodlums who, in thi book, are led by......
Square One
A Survey of Social Conditions in England and Wales. By A. M. Carr-Saunders, D. Caradog Jones and C. A. Moser. (O.U.P., 25s.) WHY do books with fine titles such as these have to......
An Eye For An Eye. By Leigh Brackett. (board - Man,
10s. 6d.) American novel of suspense, in which a lawyer's wife is kidnapped, and , the husband bites his nails until he knows what's happened to her, and then racks his brains......
Cop Hater. By Ed Mcbain. (boardman, 10s. 60 Heat Wave
and a series of cop-killings in big American city, teeming with tarts and Puerto Ricans and adolescent thugs. Pretty simple and pretty transparent plot, but quite outstanding fo......
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