Weekend In Baghdad. By Ruth Wadham. (gollancz, 12s. 6d.)...
murder of an Englishman in Iraq, with some feeling for what caused the recent factual taking-off of indigenes. Lashings of local colour and liberal ideas. CHRISTOPHER PYM......
Roman Relic
MICHEL NEY, Marshal of France and Prince of the Moskowa, resembled nothing so much, both in his excellences and his defects, as a Centurion of Rome. A loyal subordinate, he......
Defenders Of The Faith
IN spite of all the kindness shown by the English to less fortunate peoples and to animals, intelligent foreigners still remark as they have remarked for two centuries that deep......
It's A Crime
The Gigantic Shadow. By Julian Symons. (Collins, 10s. 6d.) Minor work from a master. Mr. Symons can sketch in the contemporary London scene—telefolks, dance halls, Pimlico......
Anatomy Of A Murder. By Robert Traver. (faber, 16s.) Very
long, very detailed, rather senti- mental, quite irresistible saga of a Mid-Western murder trial—spotlight on the tactics and strategy of the defence attorney. Already bought by......
Root Of Evil. By James Cross. (heinemann, 15s.) The Designer
of the wrapper should have read the book—it's good : a tale of a recently discovered hoard of gold; currency evasion; and fairly decent chaps pursued by quite nasty ones from......
Murder Makes Mistakes. By George Bellairs. (john Gifford,...
A shooting in Cheshire, solved by the worthy Superintendent Littlejohn, in another of this prolific author's admirably pedestrian, provincial and quite probable puzzles.......
Quemoy-on-the-spree?
The Berlin Blockade: A Study in Cold War Politics. By W. Phillips Davison. (O.U.P., 60s.) IN a way it is a little unfortunate that Professor Davison's book on the first great......
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