Spanish Main
Pirate. By A. B. C. Whipple. Drawings by R. M. Powers. (Gollancz, 18s.) INTO no more than 138 pages Professor Lloyd has somehow managed to fit everything: the early forays in......
And Bags Of German Local Colour: The Rakish German...
and the raffish night clubs of the Reeperbahn are just the thing for this kind of carry - on.......
Ambassadress
THIS book takes the story of the fascinating Princess de Lieven long past her Metternich period op to the time of her death, when she was Guizot's mistress. I dislike its title......
In Last Week's Issue Of The Spectator, Remember- Ing Time
Past, by Marcel Proust, was described as 'translated by C. K. Scott-Moncrieff.' This should have been 'by C. K. Scott-Moncrieff and Stephen Hudson.'......
It's A Crime
Ellery Queen's Awards: 11th Series. Edited by Ellery Queen. (Collins, 12s. 6d.) Not the best anthology of crime stories ever published, but among the sixteen prize-winners,......
The Hallowe'en Murder. , By Doris Miles Dis- Ney....
6d.) A wife is murdered, and the two obvious suspects—the husband, and the woman he means to make his mistress—have impregnable alibis. If a killer was hired, what was the......
Death In Triplicate. By E. C. R. Lorac. (col- Lins,
10s. 6d.) Possibly one corpse too many, but otherwise a satisfactorily sober, matter-of-fact North-country murder mystery, with patient Policemen plodding their way to finding......
Composite State
Kurds, Turks and Arabs. By C. J. . Edmonds. O .U.P., 42s.) ' THERE are really two books within the covers of this volume, with quite different subjects and appealing to quite......
Marked Down For Murder. By Spencer Dean. (boardman,. 10s....
Quite absorbing semi- documentary about a store detective, the teenage nymphos who go in for shop-lifting, and the female Fa2in who drills them. A death or so, too, but it's the......
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