The Ninth Hour. By Ben Benson. (collins, 10s. 6d.). This
has to do with an American jail- break, too: a planned breakaway that became an armed siege with hostages. Unusually effec- tive because of the bare-knuckled prose and the......
Emergency Exit. By Harry Carmichael. (col- Lins, 10s. 6d.) A
well-organised puzzle about whether the pilot who died in a Sussex plane crash had engineered an artistic suicide or boozed himself into his bump. Good character-drawing of......
It's A Crime
Skin Trap. By William Mole. (Eyre and Spottis- woode, 12s. 6d.) We have had crooks, private detectives and, recently, a policeman who lived in Albany : here, at last, is an......
Miss Fenny. By Charity Blackstock. (hodder And Stoughton,...
If you can believe that any Frenchwoman—even one anglicised by marriage and residence—knows nothing about tripe and anything about sherry, then here is an admirably credible,......
Egghead On Broadway
TH.E general picture presented to the outsider of theatre criticism on Broadway is somewhat Hogarthian—a few immensely powerful and sinister hatchet-men engaged on the corpse, a......
Constables Don't Count. By Alex Fraser. (bles, I Is. 6d.)
Quiet little Home Counties murder mystery, solved by village constable who is, as all too fictionally often, a cut above customary constabulary status and who gets, therefore,......
Fabulous Vanderbilt
SOME books are made to be read : others to be rummaged through. In most of us the rummaging instinct is keen; and from exploring such books one sometimes derives the same......
House Of Numbers. By Jack Finney. (eyre And Spottiswoode,...
6d.) Detailed, Rififi - like ac- count of how an escape from San Quentin is manipulated, by a substitution : there is a break-in to make possible a break-out. The sentimental......
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