Small Town D.A. By Robert Traver. - (Faber 15s.) Rather amateurish style
(and proof-reading), but humane and humorous anecdotal account o fourteen years as District Attorney in remoter Michigan, with some rollicking rural rapes, murder or so and some cracker-barrel wisdom from the DA himself. The D.A.'s Man. By Harold Danforth and James Horan. (Gollancz, 21s.) and The Kind of Guy I Am. By Robert McAllister with Floyd Miller. (Hammond, 15s.) Reminis• cences of the New York rackets of the 1930s by Harold Danforth, who helped to get such crooks as Lucky Luciano for District Mime Thomas E. Dewey. Plenty of reading if you can stand the Sunday-paper serial-revelations style• Robert McAllister tells similar tales of approx"• mately the same period, and has been even worse served by his collaborator, who is sickeninglY sentimental
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