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Lutanist Supreme

Richard Luckett John Dowkind Diana Poulton (Faber £12) Seldom can a musician's reputation have been so closely related to the fortunes of an instrument as was that of John......

Detection And Mystery

Patrick Cos grave In her famous essay on ' Detection, mystery, horror ' Dorothy Sayers distinguished between the story of pure analysis — Poe, Orczy, some of Doyle — the story......