The Men In My Life. By Marthe Watts. (christopher Johnson,
21s.) 'The sauciest remin- iscences of London's West End since the memoirs of Harriette Wilson,' the advertisements say. M'well, yes—but 'since' is the operative word. Harriette......
It's A Crime
The Progress of a Crime. By Julian Symons. (Collins, 12s. 6d.) A local loud-mouth is done by a bunch of teddy-boys; the police are not above clobbering information out of the......
A Touch Of Drama. By Guy Cullingford. (hammond, 12s. 6d.)
Neither so terse nor so telling as the Symons novel, this is still well above the recent English average. A successful and con- ceited playwright is suspected of the murder of......
False Scent. By Ngaio Marsh. (collins, 12s. 6d.) The Kind
of detective novel that flour- ished thirty years ago, when all the world was young, and English detectives were well-bred into the bargain, and when famous, fading and pas-......
Madame Maigret's Friend. By Simenon. (hamish Hamilton,...
of a puzzle and less of an atmospheric piece than usual, though it is hard by the Place des Vosges, in the picturesquely dingy Marais, recently done so proud by Mr. John Russell......
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