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DEATH AT THE ISTHMUS. By George Harmon Coxe. (Hammc and

Hammond, 10s. 6d.) Also set in the Caribbean, a straig forward American detective story, not too far-fetched, not v violent, with likeable characters, and a little drinking and danc and shaking of maracas, against a well-sketched-in Panaman background. end ht- rY ng Ian