4 MAY 1956, Page 31

lHE MEGSTONE PLOT. By Andrew Garve. (Collins, TOs. 6d.) 1t:0st

matter-of-fact, readable twist to the Burgess-Maclean story: suppose You don't take secrets to' the Soviet Union but only t',K as though you do—and then claim damages from the papers litt Yelled 'Traitor!' Falls a little flat at the end, perhaps, but ili n,flinglY worked out and cozeningly told—a thriller with no v

oience at all, and a thriller none the less.