The Battling Prophet. By Arthur Upfield. (heinemann, 12...
special and unmistakable merit of Arthur Upfield's Australian detective stories lies not so much in his plots, though these are ingenious enough, but in his creation of the......
The Hateful Voyage. By Margot Neville. (geoffrey Bles,...
Yet another detective story set at sea—this time on the long run from Australia. Margot Neville has a shrewd, tart way with rich, sophisticated Australians, and in this novel......
The Pinned Man. By George Griswold. (eyre And...
ls. 6d.) This is the fourth novel in which William Pepper of United States Intelligence finds himself involved in a counter- espionage job abroad into which stalks the tweeded,......
Tins M Urderous Shaft. By H. J. Hultman. (hammond And
Hammond, 9s. 6d.) This tale of the death of an ex-schoolmistress in West Virginia is one of those old-fashioned American detective stories that can be even slower in movement......
The Last Enemy, By Berton Roueche. (gollancz, 12s. 6d.)...
on the other hand, is a consistently chilling tale of how circumstances themselves can close in to kill. An ironic, pitiful American story of blind—very blind—inexorable......
Always Say Die. By Elizabeth Ferrars. (collins, 10s. 6d.)...
very sedate English story that is all the more convincing for being about such commonplace people. Elizabeth Ferrars crochets her highly ingenious plots as placidly as an old......
New Novels
hUDD SCHULBERG'S Waterfront (The Bodley Head, 15s.) is a sort of diffusion of his script for the film On the Waterfront; a wonder- fully vigorous conjuring of a whole......
Murder In A Steamer Cabin In The Harbour Of Limassol,
and solved on a peaceful island of Aphrodite, with all the appropriate decorations in the way of figs and wine, and kisses in the white moonlight. Very well done, with likely......
Death In Retirement. By Josephine Bell. (methuen, 12s....
is a compelling ordinariness about Josephine Bell's places and people, and this time murder arises out of who's going to look after aunty when Gillian gets married? The murder......
The Body In The Basket. By George Bagby. (macdonald, 10s.
6d.) Out of the wrapper at you comes a rakish, scarlet car, raising clouds of dust in the sunny Spanish landscape. Hot, fast, highly coloured—a fair indication of what's inside,......
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