The Case Of The Hesitant Hostess, By Erie Stanley Gardner.
(Heinemann, 12s. 6d.) The author, quoted on the wrapper, says, 'I'm not even a writer' (and he can say that again), 'just a plot- builder.' As constructional aids, he employs......
Mizmaze. By Mary Fitt. (michael Joseph, 13s. 6d.) Murder By
mallet, in a country-house maze, with overtones from Greek mythology. Very contrived confection, all too reminiscent of Raymond Chandler's dismissal of the English school of......
The Soft-footed Moor. By Kenneth Royce. (barker, 13s....
contrived, badly written suspense thriller of a man who disappears in Tangier, and how his brother and young woman cut through the web of deceit to find him. Hideously......
The Economic State Of The Union
By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT When the resources of a country are being over- strained a budget deficit can, of course, add fuel to an inflation, but when there is an economic slack......
It's A Crime
The Stone Roses. By Sarah Gainham. (Eyre and Spottiswoode, 13s. 6d.) Miss Gainham knows Central Europe, and can write. Her latest thriller • is set in Prague, as the Communists......
The House Above The River. By Josephine Bell. (hodder And
Stoughton, 12s. 6d.) Learned about sailing, and evocative about the Brittany coast. Mrs. Bell writes with a sedate charm, and has woven a neat little story—of a man appealed to......
Takes For Your Birthday. By C. E. Vulliamy. (michael Joseph,
13s. 6d.) Relentlessly facetious goings-on about the liquidation of Millie Peas- willow, with noises off from such assorted charac- ters as the Reverend Theophilus Pogge, Sir......
Singing In The Shrouds. By Ngaio Marsh. (col- Lins, 12s.
6d.) One of those old-fashioned and highly artificial closed-circle mysteries: of the nine passengers in the ocean liner one is a mur- derer who goes in for bizarre killings,......
The Blonde In Black. By Ben Benson. (collins, 12s. 6d.)
Sexy pop-singer, in slinky black satin, ventilates the nasty little man who made her famous, with her sexy little pearl-handled pistol. Highly unlikely anouement, but......
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