Daughter Fair. By Peter Graaf. (michael Joseph, 13s. 6d.)...
Chandlerian overtones— plot reminiscent both of The Big Sleep and The Little Sister, and the Marlowesque private eye is tough, rude and a tiger with the ladies. But setting is......
Die Little Goose. By David Alexander. (board- Man, 10s. 6d.)
A heat-wave in the narrower alleys of New York, where a woman lies shot dead, whose husband has given himself up the day before for having stabbed her to death. Purely a puzzle......
New Novels
My Face for the World to Sec. By Alfred Hayes. (Gollancz, 12s. 6d.) ALFRED HAYES'S new novel is sufficiently like its brilliant predecessor, In Love, not to disappoint his......
The Language Of Men
Words for the Wind. By Theodore Roethke. (Seeker and Warburg, 15s.) MR. ROETHKE is American but not obscure. Or rather he is obscure all right, but not in either of the two......
The Man In My Grave. By Wilson Tucker. (macdonald, 10s.
6d.) Lightly written frolic among the tombstones of a hick town in the Middle West: the meek little investigator is something of a card, and the gleeful gloom of the background......
So Deadly My Love. By Stephen Ransome. (gollancz, 12s. 6d.)
Young wife is kidnapped, ransomed and returned, but it is still important to know whether it was estranged husband who had snatched her. A real and tightly tucked-up piece of......
Suspicious Circumstances. By Patrick Quentin. (gollancz,...
high-spirited social comedy as crime story, with a superior sort of Dietrich glamour-matron whose Billie Burkc manner is deceptive; some high-class Hollywood bitches and lushes,......
Trouble In West Two. By Kevin Fitzgerald. (heinemann,...
Secret-service plot too bloodshot for verisimilitude, but background of off-colour clubs and knocking-shops just north of the Park too appealingly squalid not to be true. But......
Where Is Jenny Now? By Frances Shelley Wees. (herbert...
10s. 6d.) Disregard the lamentable spine and dust jacket, and enjoy an extremely ingenious tale of a kidnapping in Toronto by a gang of jewel-thieves, very neatly put together,......
Three At The Angel. By Maurice Procter. (hutchinson, 12s....
Now that Maurice Procter has taken to giving places their proper names (`The Angel' of the title is the Islington cross- roads; it used to be `Granchester' for Manchester, and......
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