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When Is A Secret Not A Secret?

Philip Ziegler UNAUTHORISED ACTION: MOUNTBATTEN AND THE DIEPPE RAID 1942 by Brian Loring Villa OUP, 115, pp. 314 of surprisingly, given the number of N fathers, husbands,......

It All Started At A Dinner In Palermo

Caroline Moorehead THE MAFIA: THE LONG REACH OF THE INTERNATIONAL SICILIAN MAFIA by Claire Sterling Hamish Hamilton, £15.99, pp. 384 C laire Sterling cduld not have picked a......

Bored To Death

Harriet Waugh THE WIMBLEDON POISONER by Nigel Williams Faber, £12.99, pp.307 T here is a small but distinguished group of novels which hovers on the borderline of crime fiction,......