S ' 6 D.) Cold-war Thriller Staged In Small Mexican Town,...
of of local colour,. uncommonly well done and not at all g agged in, because Mexican character, and even climate, play i Il eir part in the plot. A good long read, with hot......
Ri Tish Customs As Wearing Shorts And Calling Nightfall I...
time.' Blonde nympho gets hers, and ex-lover loyally suspects tlereaved husband.......
It's A Crime
THE LORD HAVE MERCY. By Shelley Smith. (Hamish Hamilton, 1 , p i llage 6 d.) Beautifully written, well-controlled study of why the 1, "ak doctor's bitchy wife was murdered; and......
More About Lawrence
THE DESERT AND THE STARS. By Flora Armitage. (Faber and Faber, 25s.) MISS FLORA ARMITAGE has made a praiseworthy attempt to be objective in this latest biography of T. E.......
De 'ti 13 Rw Ne Rt E: Ii C T The Road. By W. J. White....
6d.) Dublin —black markets, bacon and eggs, no black-out, and passes benders. On one such bender, businessman-playboy wa rn oin and believes himself poisoned—as many such must......
Their Glories Past
TWILIGHT OF THE MAHARAJAS. By Sir Kenneth Fitze. Murray, 15s.) THIS is a curious set of books. Sir Kenneth Fitze and Mr. Ev ans Thomas both have extremely good subjects. One is......
Lhe Megstone Plot. By Andrew Garve. (collins, Tos. 6d.)...
matter-of-fact, readable twist to the Burgess-Maclean story: suppose You don't take secrets to' the Soviet Union but only t ',K as though you do—and then claim damages from the......
Call In Miss Hoot. By Austin Lee. (cape, 12s. 6d.)
There's an almost Daisy Ashford-ish innocence of eye and of expression about Milly Brown's Doctor Watsoning to Flora Hogg's Sherlock Holmesing, and spine-chilling accounts of......
T He Living And The Dead. By Boileau. And Narcejac. H U...
12s. 6d.) This only partly pronounceablepair are 4h r l e ntlY conjuring up the most ingeniously mystifying plots— ''' c onvincing explanations—in the business; and all the more......
S T He Darkest Hour. By William Mcgivern. (collins, 10s....
41 5f t - centred toughie, like many a run-of-the-mill, exciting docu- i k en , l arY-gangster film, of hoods, framers-uppers, and mere ‘ Ho le - crossers on New York's......
S Tranger In The Dark. By Helen Nielsen. (gollancz, 10s....
And this is what happens when a once first-rate detective-story twriter decides to rely solely on local colour, cramming in every- bla g that an American tripper would regard as......
.': ( A/ian And A Half. By Frederick Gamble. (arthur Barker,
Irish d .) Benders spin the plot, too, in this (I think) Northern , t ale of the good-fellow barfly who may or may not have killed "roan acquaintance in the course of an......
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