The Innocents. By Richard Savage. (museum Press, 13s....

snatches his seven-year- old son from wife who wants to take him through Iron Curtain. Suspense and pursuit in London.......

New Novels

More Flannel People. By Philip Callow. (Heinemann, 15s.) THE publishing industry, for which August is like one long Wakes Week, has been good enough to send out a supply of......

Mary Roberts Rinehart's Crime Book. (cassell, 21s.); A...

Sayers Stories. (Gollancz, 10s. 6d.); Best American Detective Stories of the Year. (Boardman, 12s. 6d.) and The Albatross. By Charlotte Armstrong. (Peter Davies, 15s.) Those......

A Penknife In My Heart. By Nicholas Blake. (collins, 12s.

6d.) Two men with murder in mind swop victims, so that their seemingly motiveless murders shall go undetected. The notion has been used before—this time the setting is English,......

The Silent Siren. By Thomas Sterling. (gol- Lancz, 12s. 6d.)

The paths of a high-class American tart and a high-class Italian nobleman cross on the Neapolitan coast, and death marks the spot. The neat plot has a new twist, and the graphic......

Death Designs A Dress. By E. M. Robinson. (hammond, 10s.

6d.) Neat detective story, notable for its low-down on the Paris rag trade. Lively and rather de luxe read.......

It's A Crime

Five Roads to S'Agaro. By K. G. Ballard. (Boardman, 12s. 6d.) Distinguished puzzle-thriller, set on deserted, winter-bound Costa Brava; well written and with suspense well......