4 OCTOBER 1957, Page 46

The Wife of the Red - haired Man. By Bill S. Ballinger.

(Reinhardt, 12s. 6d.) Simply a tale of pursuit. A man breaks jail, shoots the husband of his former wife, and flees with her across the United States, with the cops after them. Told in a starkly simple yet compassionate tone of voice, so that the suspense tightens towards the in- evitable climax. Usual enough story, unusually well done—a gripper.