The Manasco Road. By Victor Canning. (hodder And...
6d.) First-rate novels of action and adventure are rare, and here is one that Henley and Stevenson would have clapped their hands over—fast, credible and ex- citing, set in the......
The Crime Is Murder. By Helen Nielsen. (gollancz, 12s. 6d.)
Who crisped the amorous composer by long-ago arson in cultural Lake Michigan countryside? Miss Nielsen is an elegant writer but a sloppy plotter—solution is by tape- recorder,......
The Big Frame. By The Gordons. (macdonald, 10s. 6d.)...
espionage, sabotage, and blackmail is a typically American kind of organ- ised crime; this typically American kind of crime- story about it is convincing and exciting, and would......
An Old Controversy
Israel Zangwill. By Joseph Leftwich. (James Clarke, 21s.) THE publishers claim that this is the first biography of Zangwill. It is not a good one. It lacks method and......
The Man In Charge. By Richard Jessup. (seeker And Warburg,
12s. 6d.) The bad cops slug the innocent, and the good cops slug the guilty, and eventually who croaked the rich and lovely nympho is made clear, and the good cops go to their......
Gideon's Night. By J. J. Marric. (hodder And Stoughton, 12s.
6d.) Third in a series of slightly sentimentalised semi-documentaries of the muddle of mystery that comes in hour by hour to Scotland Yard, and how the skilled yet simple-......
Bloody Heroes
DURING a brief visit to a battlefield in the winter of 1944 I saw three things which moved me rather less at the time than they did later in retrospect, and which I did not......
It's A Crime
The Soft Talkers. By Margaret Millar. (Gol- lancz, 12s. 6d.) Brilliant surprise packet: sar- donically amused and sardonically amusing story of well-heeled Canadian smart set in......
Might As Well Be Dead. By Rex Stout. (collins, 10s.
6d.) Rather too laboriously contrived a tale, about rather too many murders, to be on the top of Mr. Stout's big basket of books, but lazy, gormandising Nero Wolfe and the......
The Brave Bad Girls. By Thomas B. Dewey. (boardman, 10s.
6d.) Immensely complicated, tough, tense tale—with twists—about cops, crooks, private eyes, and bosomy blondes in Chicago, by one of the best of all contemporary crime-writers......
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