• Hard School
THE author of this book possesses two qua not often found in combination, which We'll fit him to be Secretary of the Howard League li t il a to write about prisons. He has the......
The Break. By Jose Giovanni. (cape, 16s.) Grim,...
story of attempt by five convicts to tunnel out of Paris prison. The characters of the men and the screws they are pitted against are strongly drawn, and the atmosphere strikes......
Death Lives Next Door. By Gwendoline Butler. (bles, I Is.
6d.) Woman don haunted in Oxford by a Watcher, who is eventually found dead in her house, but not before much suspense has been distilled out of the grey stone and greyer mists......
Finding The Past
Heirs and Rebels. Letters and occasional writings on music by Ralph Vaughan Williams and Gustav Hoist. (O.U.P., I6s.) dl! t s if rite in eft icra .00 ific re' THE quotation from......
The 'life And Death Of 'harry Oakes. By Geoffrey Bocca.
(Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 21s.) The life of Harry Oakes; an 'American who struck it rich enough in Canada to live it up in the Bahamas. was the dull success story of a selfish,......
It's A Crime
The Vanishing Evangelist, By Lately Thomas. (Heinemann, 25s.) Aimee Semple McPherson, hotcha-gospeller of the Twenties, went for a swim. and disappeared for five weeks. Had she......
My Brother Michael. By Mary Stewart. (hodder And...
5s.) Mary Stewart gives each of her admirable novels an exotically handsome (if sometimes rather travel-folderish) setting. In this, by a long chalk the best of them, her pretty......
A Reasonable Doubt. By Julian Symons. (cresset Press,...
has a chapter on the Harry Oakes murder, one of a baker's dozen of solved and . unsolved crimes, into which one of Our most talented and stylish mystery-makers ferrets, with an......
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