23 JANUARY 1988, page 38

A First Stab At The Rich

David Profumo A CASE OF KNIVES by Candia McWilliam Bloomsbury, £12.95 F ord Madox Ford once described in It Was the Nightingale how he could not begin a scene in a novel before......

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Fiction The Emperor of Ice-cream by Brian Moore, Paladin, £3.95 In the Labyrinth by John David Morley, Abacus, £3.99 Charade by John Mortimer, Penguin, £2.50 The Shrapnel......