Framed For Hanging. By Guy Cullingford. (hammond And...
6d.) Equally sedate English piece, set in cathedral town—Chester, perhaps?—not very far in place or time from Mrs. Maybrick, and with overtones of that real-life lady's cele-......
It's A Crime
DEATH OF AN ADMIRAL. By Gilbert Hackforth-Jones. (Hodder and Stoughton, 12s. 6d.) Long, meaty mystery solved by naval two-and-a-half-striper in course of fascinatingly......
The Other Island. By E. H. Clements. (hodder And Stoughton,
12s. 6d.) On one island at the entrance to the Bristol Channel is a government research station; on another, close by, is a community of Benedictines; over them both wheel the......
Murder Comes To Eden. By Leslie Ford. (collins, 10s. 6d.)
Sentimental yet exciting piece about how 'development' threatens a honeysuckled corner of 'Old Virginny,' along with its sweet, eccentric old lady and couple of charming......
The Final Run. By Douglas Sanderson. (secker And Warburg,...
6d.) Diamond-smuggling and refugee-running across the halo-Yugoslav frontier by a writer who patently doesn't care for the Tito regime; who knows his Venice and Trieste; and who......
The Man In The Net. By Patrick Quentin. (gollancz, 12s.
6d.) Plot itself nothing to write home about, but admirably sensible study of neuro-alcoholic wife-murderee, and terrifying glimpse of lynch-lust that lies (apparently) just......
The Diehard. By Jean Potts. (gollancz, 12s. 6d.) A Lot
of people—ex-mistress, repressed daughter, frustrated son, bitchy daughter-in-law—have reason to wish successful small-town American businessman dead : who will try it on, and......
The Colonist
LITERARY historians can be divided into two schools—the messy and the jerky. The messy are those who are aware of the relations (but what relations?) between literature and......
Wmow's Web. By Ursula Curtiss. (eyre And Spottiswoode,...
This must be the fourth little masterpiece of suspense and ambiguity concocted by Miss Curtiss, and the magic is still at work : a man and a woman close in to catch a murderess,......
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