They Died In The Spring. By Josephine Pa– L Oy Thompson....
12s. 6d.) Pleas 3li e straightforward, sober-sided novel in whic h ,, fi h g Colonel gets shot by sporting gun after 113 "0 infuriated the village (and especially the 1113 i be......
Compassionate, Distinguished, Moving
By COLIN M AcINNES R ,, , , ,,„ IN i books—particularly novels—is an , , ungrateful task, because it demands quite , "Ri work (reading the things, perhaps even T \ h Ore than......
Killer's Payoff. By Ed Mcbain. (board Ri !':1 12s. 6d.) A...
and usually pretty Plat si ,bis American crime-writer back on form wi th d i t carefully matter-of-fact account of hoe' Se t policemen at his 87th Precinct cop-hous e :l e r......
It's A Crime
of British murders, murderers and murder to of this century, with a few counsel and ludic ii given an air of some sort of scholarship by b e „ t h arranged dictionary-wise,......
The Accomplices. By Leonard Cooper. ( 01 ;o
Press, 15s.) The special relationship that up between accuser and accused, pursuer' ' ,r• pursued, suspect and cop, even torturer an d ' a n d tured, has been explored in novel......
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