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MY Doo TULIP. By J. R. Ackerley. (Secker and Warburg, 10s. 6d.) MR. ACKERLEY'S Alsatian bitch Tulip is doubtless a delightful dog, but it would be embarrassing to meet her now......
The Tall Dowites. By Michael Avalonne. (arthur Barker, 11 S.
6d.) More sluggings—slugs of rye and slugs of sex, with some fancy shooting and knifing to break the monotony. Routine rough stuff, with the routine soft centre—no less timeworn......
Patrick Butler For The Defence. By John Dickson Carr....
Hamilton, 12s. 6d.) Sinister-seeming Oriental stabbed in sealed room; Mr. Carr is an adept at this kind of puzzle, and can spin it out to book-length in his sleep. Perhaps he......
The End Of The Track. By Andrew Garve. (collins, 10s.
6d.) Decent chap blackmailed by bad hat, who gets murdered in New Forest, and fried in forest fire. Luck plays its part in clearing decent chap, but the blackmailer was a loss,......
New Novels
Two excellent novels this week evoke two complete sets of circumstances and ways of life and thought, and, by almost exactly opposite methods, achieve rather similar results.......
Another Mystery In Suva. By Frank Arthur. (heinemann,...
Nice old-fashioned detective stuff in Suva, capital of Fiji, with Fijians, Sikhs, a few sweating white men, some in- betweens, and a digger's-eye-view, at least a generation out......
Be Shot For Sixpence. By Michael Gilbert. (hodder And...
12s. 6d.) A frolic, not to be taken any more seriously by its readers than by its author—the man who, in Fear to Tread, wrote the best British crime story since the war: a......
Guest In The House. By Philip Macdonald. (herbert...
6d.) The hero is Lieutenant-Colonel the Honourable Ivor Dalgleish St. Pelham St. George, VC, DSO, and the old soldier servant stiffens to attention when he speaks, even in......
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