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„someone From The Past. By Margot Bennett. Nre And...

12s. 6d.) Pretty and Pr omiscuous Bohemian young woman is bumped :l r) and not quite so pretty and promiscuous girl end sets out to discover by which of a string of rmer lovers.......

Murder On Delivery. By Spencer Dean. (board- Fl, 10s. 6d.)

Mr. Dean goes in for department- lore devilries, a little sensationally this time, but W ith some fascinating background stuff about the rice of Soviet-grown sables in New York......

New Novels

Present Indicative Clerks in Lowly Orders, by Stuart Mitchel, is very much a contemporary novel; its yellow Gollancz jacket suits it well. That is not a snide way of saying that......

The Mercenaries. By Jon Manchip White. (john Long, I Is.

6d.) A couple of bravoes are hired to smuggle one of Peron's ministers and his Mistress out of Argentina; this is an adventure tale, of escape through the jungle. The characters......

The Whipping Boys. By Guy Cullingford. The Whipping Boys. By

Guy Cullingford. ammond, 10s. 6d.) Adolescent hooligans in ,onglish provincial town are suspected of elderly b aby-sitters's death from fright. The youth-club b ackchat doesn't......

Making Up The Chancellor's Mind

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT BEFORE the economy can be given a boost it is quite clear that the Chancellor must have one first. He is altogether too shy and modest. He is hiding too......

It's A Crime

Maigret and the Old Lady. By Simenon. (Hamish Hamilton, I is. 6d.) Another of the master's scenes from French provincial life—Normandy, this time, with Balzacian characters set......