19 MAY 1990, page 31

Marlowe Dwindling Into A Husband

Mark Illis POODLE SPRINGS by Raymond Chandler and Robert B. Parker Macdonald, f12.95, pp. 268 A dangerous honour, to be asked to finish the work of a master. Parker, the press......

More Than The Quest For A Guffaw

John Mortimer THE OXFORD BOOK OF HUMOROUS PROSE a conducted tour by Frank Muir OUP, £17.95, pp. 1198 T he only sure and uncontroversial judgment of humorous writing is that one......