14 APRIL 1961, Page 28

Do You Know This Voice? By Evelyn Berck- man. (Eyre

and Spottiswoode, 15s.) Very old, semi-literate, broken-Englished Czech woman in American city is only one to have seen the murderer-kidnapper and, in spite of the police, who only half-believe her, and fear for her safety, she makes the fact public, to draw the quarry. Will the murderer get her, or the police get the murderer first? There is a slow, and all the more effective, build-up and a surprising, ex- citing, but quite convincing climax.