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The Spanish Labyrinth

Simon Courtauld A t the end of March, 1939, Pope Pius XII wrote to Franco: 'Lifting our hearts to God, we give sincere thanks with your Excellency for the victory of Catholic......

Thrillers

Harriet Waugh D etective fiction, although a curious and agreeable backwater within the noisy and violent ambit of the crime novel, does suffer a mild inferiority complex about......