16 NOVEMBER 1956, Page 24

A G • UN TO PLAY WITH. By J. F. Straker. (Harrap,

I Is. 6d.) Sunday shootings in Sussex, all made readably matter-of-fact by realism with which local police are treated, however odd the goings-on of the American hero imagined by British novelist as nervously unsure whether to kiss his girl or not. Mr. Straker, in short, better so far at police procedure than at people.