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It's A Crime

Fingers of Fear. By Philip MacDonald. (Crime Club. 9s. 6d.) " WHO cares," Mr. Edmund Wilson acidly demanded some years ago, " who killed Roger Ackroyd ? " As the formulae of the......

Missing The Point No One Was Brave There, Many Turned

away With every thought a backward step for them And all excitement echoes. Others who Would turn the future into an escape And so assembled it before it came F oun d n othing......

New Novels

The Foolish Immortals. By Paul Gallico. (Michael Joseph. 12s. 6d.) IN Lebanon Paradiie, which is the name of a fashionable seaside hotel just outside Beirut, Mr. Atiyah presents......