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Shooting Script, by Gavin Lyall (Hodder and Stoughton, 18s.). Very good indeed. Gavin Lyall is a master of his craft. which is the expert telling of an adventure rather than a crime story. He has the gift of creating reader-involvement in the vivid events he portrays and, too, in per- sonalising his beloved aircraft. There's a good Caribbean background : I for one found myself back in my youth in an authentic Myrtle Bank Hotel. A Nameless Coffin, by Gwendoline Butler (Bles, 15s.). Remarkably good. A strange and macabre atmosphere is built up while London swelters in an oppressive atmosphere of shimmer- ing heat. Mrs Butler has a talent for making the reader uneasily aware of a vague undercurrent of brooding horror waiting to be unleashed. The Prisoner of Love, by Hubert Monteilhet, trans- lated by Richard Howard (Chapman and Hall, 18s.). A slender book of sophistication laced with elegance and wit. The terrible, amorous con- volutions in which Oreste Leandros is involved with ex-Wife No. 2 leads to his destruction and to our entertainment.
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