And Now, After More Than Ten Years Of Re- Viewing
crime fiction, six of them in the service of this paper, first as 'Christopher Pym' and more recently under my own name, I lay down my poison pen. My successor is a lady with a......
The Ferguson Affair. By Ross Macdonald. (collins, 12s....
great deal of the flavour and character of Raymond Chandler's wry, sar- donic stories of Californian crime lay in the crisp dialogue of characters no better (and, for that......
Pig And Pepper
Curtains. By Kenneth Tynan. (Longmans, 42s.) KENNETH PEACOCK TYNAN tends to provoke ex- treme reactions—and, incidentally, I'm not being personal; it was only yesterday that I......
It's A Crime
Lizzie Borden : The Untold Story. By Edward Radin. (Gollancz, 21s.) The greatest of all of America's classic unsolved mysteries is nothing like so titillating as ours, for it......
The Worm Of Death. By Nicholas Blake. (collins, 12s. 6d.)
Everybody knows that Nicholas Blake is Cecil Day Lewis, and so every= body knows that Mr. Blake can write. But what Mr. Lewis doesn't bother about in Mr. Blake's crime novels is......
Full Term. By Philip Spencer. (faber, 15s.) Implausible...
is, Nicholas Blake does, at any rate, get his details right. Not so Philip Spencer, trying what seems to be a prentice hand at one of those death-among-the-dreaming- spires......
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