14 APRIL 1961, page 27

Cities Of Words

The Talent Scout. By Romain Gary. (Michael Joseph, 16s.) 11 was almost a great week for the Novel. Not just for novels, the honest, small segments of private experience which......

It's A Crime Faith Has No Country. By R. Vernon

&sic. (Hodder and Stoughton, los.) Un-hero with ulcer is parachuted back into Occupied France to find out which member of the ;umiak team he had worked with was betraying plans......

Death In Covert. By Colin Willock. (heine- Mann, 15s.) Mr.

Willock is uncommonly know- ledgeable and even more uncommonly readable about open-air pursuits, and this frolicsome piece about murder at a Home Counties shoot is peopled with......

Be Silent, Love. By Fan Nichols. (boardman, 12s. 6d.)...

car-driver on his way with pretty girl to illicit weekend has to kill again, deliberately, to save his reputation, his marriage and his job. Fast, convincing thriller, with no......

Murder Is Incidental. By Douglas Rutherford. (collins,...

inaccessible North Italian fishing village—as it might be one of the Cinque Terre—is torn out of its slumber . when rich man turns up, proposing to buy whole town (for sake of......