Gently Does It. By Alan Hunter. (cassell, 10s. 6d.) A
Yard cop as competent as Chief Inspector Gently is made to appear ought to rely a little less on luck and more on good management in teaching the local police their business.......
One Man's Poison. By Sebastian Fox. (chatto And Windus, 12s.
6d.) Poison is fed to a poisonous broadcasting literary gent; death takes place not until half-way through the book, but scene and characters are beautifully deployed, and the......
The Sleeping Partner. By Winston Graham. (hodder And...
6d.) Here, too, death doesn't strike until the middle of the book, but by that time the charicters, and their possible motives for the crime that's going to happen, have been......
Proof Of The Pudding
RE THOUGHT AND CULTURE OF THE ENGLISH RENAISSANCE: An Anthology of Tudor Prose, 1481-1555. Edited by Elizabeth M. Nugent. (C.U.P., 37s. 6d.) Inc - Renaissance and Reformation,......
It's A Crime
GENTLEMEN AT CRIME. By Donald Mackenzie. (Elek, 16s.) Fact, if not stranger than crime fiction, is, at any rate, and for once, faster and funnier. Donald Mackenzie, who was a......
Murder In Vienna. By E. C. R. Lorac. (collins, 10s.
6d.) Workmanlike example of the guide-book kind : the author has obviously spent a few days in Vienna, and slips in, here and there, quite a bit of its rococo charm; a whiff of......
Cat. By Val Gielgud. (collins, 10s. 6d.) Quite The Best,
so far, from this always promising, now fulfilling, author : told entirely, and necessarily, in flashback, the story of a murder that was inevitable—given the sort of man the......
The Case Of The One-eyed Witness. By Erle Stanley Gardner.
(Heinemann, 12s. 6d.) In a foreword, dedicating his book to a lecturer in forensic medicine he once sat under, Mr. Gardner reveals how 'I have been brought to a realisation that......
A Cold Coming. By Mary Kelly. (seeker And Warburg, 12s.
6d.) 'A Suspense Novel,' promises the dust-cover, which may have reference to those first eighteen solid pages one plods through to get to the first piece of conversation, and......
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