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Placards

Peter Ackroyd The Season of the Machete James Patterson (Secker and Warburg £4.50) James Patterson spends his days as an advertising copywriter, in other words as a kind of......

Canonical

Benny Green Exit Sherlock Holmes Robert Lee Hall (John Murray E3.95) There has developed rapidly in the last few years a rigid procedure for impersonating Sir Arthur Conan......