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Family Skeletons. By Patrick Quentin. (Gol- lancz, 16s.) Lewis Denham,

adopted into a family of incredible snobbery, commits the enormity of marrying a British girl with an unknown and possibly unsavoury background. From this be- ginning, murder is committed and all the family skeletons come clattering out of the cupboard with a vengeance. Recommended. Dead Against the Lawyers. By Roderic Jeffries. (Crime Club, 15s.) Radwick Holter, QC, was so besotted with his pretty wife, thirty years younger, that he was blinded to the plain facts before him—even when they added up to an accusation of murder. In the dock, however, with all the evidence piling up against him, he turns to good account his own knowledge of the law. The resulting legal intricacies make fascinating reading.