21 DECEMBER 1956, Page 24

THE PUB CRAWLER. By Maurice Procter. (Hutchinson, 10s. Realistic murder

mystery set in some such Yorkshire industi town as Leeds (for some reason camouflaged as 'Airechester') likeable and probable young bobby-hunting tough but not co characterised killer, in taprooms and fish-and-chip shops. 1 dingy crime was of the kind one reads about in the earth Sunday papers, and the novel is peopled with the same pan( readers. d.) ial ith er- be jer Is'