21 SEPTEMBER 1956, page 25

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......

Little Top

WHEN the exhibition which this album commemorates opened in February, several Paris papers spread the news on their front pages; Paris Match offered photographs of Bernard......

Murder In Haiti. By John W. Vandercook. (eyre And...

10s. 6d.) This impudently improbable confection concerning mysterious megalomaniac millionaire chasing Hitler's gold in an ocean-going yacht is sad let-down from usual high......

The Narrowing Lust. By Henry Kane. (boardman, 10s. 6d.)...

dolls, shamuses and a stiff in a locked room, croaked by his own John Roscoe; title from Lord Tennyson's In Memoriam.......