It's a Crime
Skin Trap. By William Mole. (Eyre and Spottis- woode, 12s. 6d.) We have had crooks, private detectives and, recently, a policeman who lived in Albany : here, at last, is an Albany-resident murder-victim—and a female one, at that, dis- posing once and for all of the legend that Albany is, only for bachelors. This is a civilised story about a civilised murderer, whose identity is re- vealed early, after which the novel, good though it is, never quite lives up to its blandly readable first half. Mr. Mole (one of the most sensible yet imaginative of the new English crime- novelists) seems more at home with the geography of Mayfair, the growths of Medoc and the way about museums than he is with abnormal psy- chology. All the same, a pleasure to read : more power to that elegant elbow.
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