15 SEPTEMBER 1961, page 26

Killing Cousins, By Fletcher Flora. (cape, 12s. 6d.)...

frolic, in the idiom of A Slight Case of Murder or, as it might be, The Wrong Box in Kansas City, in which a cuddlesome featherpate kills her old man quite, quite dead, and......

Vienna Strains

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT First, let me explain the immediate technical problem. The IMF strained itself last month by rescuing the £. It allowed the UK to draw $1,500 million in......

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......

Shake This Town. By Robert V. Williams. (hart-davis,...

long documentary read about a dingy, run-down textile town— a sort of corrupt New Jersey Jarrow of the 1950s —in which a thick-eared ltalo-American ex- gaolbird ex-pug tries to......