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It's A Crime

Doll, by Ed McBain (Hamish Hamilton, 16s.). If a new Ed McBain doesn't come your way, you ask for it, because otherwise you know you will be missing a thriller with a special......

It Won't Get • You Anywhere, By Desmond Skirrow (bodley

Head, 18s.). Starts off in a `Very promising way, in the advertising world ,jf little problems and big solutions. Soon our herd, a part - time agent, is diverted to an......

The Long March

'ON the 12th of June the Western hordes entered Russia and war broke out That is to say, an event took place in diametrical opposition to all laws human and divine.' Tolstoy's......

The Piper On The Mountain, By Ellis Peters (crime Club,

15s.). A beautifully contrived thriller, with one mystery within another. The Youthful Tossa and Dominic, well-rounded, whole characters, grip the reader's attention as they......

Remote Effectual Don

The Letters of C. S. Lewis. Edited by W. M. Lewis. (Bles, 30s.) IN January 1917 C. S. Lewis wrote to his brother, 'Oxford is absolutely topping, and I am awfully bucked with......