The Case Of The Russian Cross. By Christopher Bush....
10s. 6d.) This, the fiftieth novel about Ludovic Travers, his detective agency, and his chum from the Yard, is reassuringly like the other forty-nine, and concerns itself,......
Sun, Stars And Donatello
A Small Part of Time. By Michael Swan. (Cape, 21s.) To criticise criticism is an unrewarding, not to say a redundant, task. The essays in Mr. Swan's A Small Part of Time,......
Stopover : Tokyo. By John P. Marquand. (collins, 12s. 6d.)
The transatlantic Trollope of Boston and big business is also the creator of Mr. Moto, the Japanese detective who, between the wars, was as contrived and quaintly cute as a......
Strip Jack Naked. By Guthrie Wilson. (hale, 8s. 6d.) Short,
violent novel about bewildered lout with a knuckle-duster on the New Zealand dock- sides, who is made to seem pitiably human and alone before he wantonly kills and is killed.......
Fire, Burn! By John Dickson Carr. (hamish Hamilton, 13s....
Two birds—history and mystery—with one rather unwieldy stone: Scot- land Yard superintendent, blipped on head, slips into being peeler in 1829, and combines duelling with......
To This Favour. By Susan Gilruth. (hodder And Stoughton,...
6d.) Miss Gilruth has a pleas- ingly light hand with shop-worn puppets—the bluff country gentleman and his rich and pretty wife who falls for a writin' feller—and with her......
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