Jail Bait By J. W. Mason. (robert Hale, 10s. 6d.)
Knowledgeable, unsensational, but lively and likely tale of the sort of crime that really is committed in London, and by pros : breaking and entering and a bit of bashing-up.......
The Oldest Confession. By R. Condon. (long- Mans, 15s.) Very
classy crime—the forging of a Velazquez and the pinching of a Goya from the Prado, no less—in a double-crossing world of duchesses and Daimlers, with a bullfighter centre stage,......
Toy Democracy
European Politics in Southern Rhodesia. By Colin Leys. (O.U.P., 42s.) THIS is an imposing book. It is written with dry incisiveness and is free of PPE jargon. Mr. Leys lets the......
Wife Had Committed Suicide: The Excitement In This Smooth...
sensible American novel lies not in proving it to have been murder, but in dis- covering why she had done it. A good study in suspense and the cruelties of small-town gossip.......
Against The Public Interest. By Robert Gaines....
Best of its kind for a long time—its kind being a mixture of political satire and off-through-the-Iron-Curtain thriller. Excel- lent characterisation, male and female; convinc-......
The Widow's Cruise. By Nicholas Blake. (collins, 12s....
on one of those Greek lecture-cruises; some unlikely characters; and a roaringly impossible solution, stylishly presented.......
Blanket. By Henry Stratton. (macdonald, 10s. 6d.) One...
is called Christopher, and another Pym, and in other respects, too, this is a most commendable book —a fast, plausible chase-the-secret-papers sort of thing. Good London and St.......
The Chinese Gold Murders. By Robert Van Gulik. (michael...
13s. 6d.); and Strike for a Kingdom. By Menna Gallie. (Gollancz, 12s. 6d.) Another of the Ming period stories of. the T'ang detective, adapted by a Dutch Orientalist who writes......
It's A Crime
Goldfinger, By Ian Fleming. (Cape, 15s.) Pym's number one is the latest and least plausible even of James Bond's jaunts and jollities, in which hp tangles with 'the greatest......
Lloyd George Leading
Documents on British Foreign Policy, 1919- 1939. Edited by Rohan Butler and J. P. T. Bury. 1st Series, Vol. VW. (H.M.S.O., 80s.) LONG as they are, these secret minutes of secret......
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