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Ngaio Marsh

Harriet Waugh D ame Ngaio Marsh, who died last week at the age of 82, was one of the last of a group of women detective writers (Agatha Christie, Margery Allingham, Dorothy L.......

Shimmering

Francis King w hen I began to work in Japan at the end of the Fifties, I found that my students were perpetually consulting me about problems that had nothing to do with their......

Books Wanted

CENTRAL ASIAN TRAVEL AND POLITICS 19th and 20th century works sought by author. Especially Younghusband, Stein, Hedin, Schom- berg. Peter Hopkirk, 32 Quarrendon St, London SW6.......