30 AUGUST 1957, Page 25

It's a Crime

She Wouldn't Say Who. By Delano Ames. (Hodder and Stoughton, 12s. 6d.) Latest of the heavily lighthearted frolics of the irresponsible Dagobert-and-Jane, husband-arid-wife runners- into-trouble—to call them detectives is to put too fine a point on it. This time the author is superior about the suburbs, arch about amateur dramatics, and funny about foreigners: amusing to those un- familiar with the genre, but readers who have grinned their way through the whole canon will find their facial expression becoming fixed.