16 AUGUST 1986, page 20

Down To A Sunless Sea

Patrick Skene Catling ONLY BY MISTAKE by P. J. Kavanagh John Calder, £9.95 I nnocence is so rare, even in its least daring, negative form of nonwickedness, that the shining......

300 Pairs Of Knickers In A Twist

Byron Rogers A CAST OF KILLERS by Sidney Kirkpatrick Hutchinson, £10.95 T his is intended as a detective story. In the last locked box the biographer finally accounted for the......