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Tii R T I ,f Lie W Of The Growing Fame Of The Real...

who writes travel books, I beg leave to abandOn the pen-name I plucked out of thin air many years ago, for crime-novel reviewing only, when Mr. Pym was probably still in the......

A Hum E- By John Williams. (heinemann, 21s.) Rt , Slick...

cut to a familiar pattern, of th e man who murdered Stanley Setty, cut up his bod y, threw it out of an aeroplane and was convicted only as an accessory, and who now doe s life......

It's A Crime

Sleep Long My Love. By Hi (Gollancz, 13s. 6d.) Hillary Waug Wearing . . ., published seven yea of the landmarks among twe American crime-novels—a quiet, pletely enthralling......

In God We Trust

The Facts about Nixon. By William Costello. (Hutchinson, 25s.) THE great thing about Mr. Macmillan is that he writes his own speeches. Indeed, it is not easy to think of anybody......

Ghost In The Making. By Nigel Fitzgerald. (collins, 10s....

Murder is committed in the course of a bibulous, amorous Irish country - house party. Nigel Fitzgerald is very good at drawing-room comedy, not so good at methods of and motives......

185) ° ..,, °d L O N The Scales. By Leslie Hale. (cape,...

is beautifully printed, well and wittily wiil ° ( t hough Mr. Hale is a little too free and ionagined conversations between real people, careless in his spelling of proper......

P,. Di Ary Of A District Attorney. By Martin (cassell....

observations o n what a he Ne w York District Attorney does, and how does it, with some mildly melodramatised 'illustrative incidents, told in almost incoherently „ urgid prose.......