16 JUNE 1967, page 19

It's A Crime

MAURICE PRIOR I was rather taken with Madame Aubry Dines with Death by Hugh Travers (Elek 21s). Beautiful French female sleuth embarrassed at having to prove her lover innocent......

Down To Earth

JOHN ROWAN WILSON I suppose every ambitious young novelist nowadays must be wondering whether he wouldn't be well advised to abandon the weari- some search for new fictional......

Windward In Twilight

JOHN HOLLOWAY With the ploughland-wold alight a light for distance, a winter pallid sharpness, acid enough (being edged by the wind) to eat away clouds and eat away me—expose......