The Ordeal Of Mrs. Snow. By Patrick Quentin. (gollancz,...
A dozen very slick, very com- petent, machine-made magazine stories of mur- der, detection and suspense, every one readable, not one memorable.......
The Cross-roads. By John D. Macdonald. (hale, 10s. 6d.) At
the cross-roads of two great American motorways is a commercial complex of motel, restaurants, shopping centre and filling station; of the royal family which rules this united......
It's A Crime
The Grave of Heroes. By James Cross. (Heine- mann, 18s.) Long, efficient political thriller, set in Paris, with a Left-wing Spanish refugee writing the book that will blow the......
Faces Of Violence
Family Jewels. By Petru Dumitriu. Translated by Edward Hyams. (Collins, 21s.) IT is scarcely possible in the space available to do justice to the scope and quality of Domnul......
A Tapping On The Wall. By Helen Hull. (collins, I2s.
6d.) Three deaths—and yet this is a quiet and unviolent novel about neuroses in the English faculty at a university in the eastern United States, where a professor falls in......