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A Jury Of Angels. By Bill Strutton. (hodder And Stoughton,

12s. 6d.) Immensely civilised and satisfactory first attempt at the atom-scientist-on- the-run formula—full of style as well as of sus- pense, set in the seedier parts of London......

Far East

The Far East in the Modern World. By F. H. THESE three massive books, all of which deal with the recent history of the Far East, contain between them 1,766 pages. They are......

Dead In A Row. By Gwendoline Butler. (bles, 11s. 6d.)

Murder in a London 'neighbourhood on the way up . . . between the smart and the slum . . . even its smartest purlieus had a raffish quality.' So it is as much an amused and......

Boiled Alive. By Bruce Buckingham. (michael Joseph, 12s....

publisher's crime novels are so elegantly printed as to add 10 per cent. or so to the readability. So this may not be quite so good as I think it is, and perhaps there are too......

New Novels

WITH disrespect to neither place of origin it could be suggested that Three Lives is a typical English novel and Peyton Place a typical American one. By some people the former......

Gownsman's Gallows. By Katherine Farrer. (hodder And...

Were it not for far-fetched plot—an undergraduate connives at burning of body rather than be wrongly suspected of running over it; complicated harking-back to French......