9 JULY 1977, page 24

Vasty Deep

Peter Ackroyd If You Could See Me Now Peter Straub (Jonathan Cape E3.95) Ghosts and spirits are now solely the property of realistic fiction; what else does it have, in its......

Buchan's Law

Benny Green Cheyney's Law Patrick Cosgrave (Macmillan £3.25) In the old Spectator building in Gower Street there was a subterranean dining room at whose table a group of us must......