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The Other Bullet. By Nancy Barr Marity. (the Crime Club.

7s. 6d.)—Peter Piper, reporter of the Herald, is the young detective hero of the story. Although Mrs. Everett admits that she fired twice at Mortison, the manager of her......

Night In The Hotel. By Eliot Crawshay-williams....

Crawshay-Williams has thought of an excellent idea. In his prologue he gives an objective sketch of the characters at luncheon in an inexpensive Riviera hotel. He then takes the......

Fiction

History Rewritten Love - Girl. By May Edginton. (Collins. 7s. 6d.) HISTORICAL novels, like history itself, must be rewritten for every generation. We are now interested less in......

The Gentle Libertine. By Colette. (gollancz. 7s. 6d.)—the...

of Colette finds adequate expression in this story of the girl Minnie, whose ambition it is to become Queen Minnie, Queen of the Paris apaches. In adolescence, Minnie lives in a......

The Square Circle. By Denis Maekail. (hodder And...

6d.)—In a previous novel Mr. Denis Mackail took the roofs off various houses in Greenery Street and allowed us intimate glimpses of their inhabitants. In his latest, longest,......