It's A Crime
The Authentic Death of Hendry Jones. By Charles Neider. (Muller, 13s. 6d.) Novel of suspense set in the Far West of the heroic age— the 1880s: a gunfighter is caught, escapes......
The Rich Die Hard. By Beverley Nichols. (hutchinson,...
is a policeman who says —and the little dots are the author's—in my class of people, that word "mistress" . . . it sounds sort of . . . continental.' There is a Lord Richard......
Plantagenet Vices
Devil's Brood: The Angevin Family. By Alfre ( Duggan. (Faber, 21s.) 'Fltom the devil they came and to the devil the) will go.' There is obviously the stuff of tough astringent......
The Case Of Torches. By Clark Smith. (ham- Mond, Hammond,
10s. 6d.) Unusually convincing story of intrigue inside big industrial concern, with murder and mystery as incidental by- products. Written with style, point, and a Bal-......
Bony Buys A Woman. By Arthur Upheld. (heinemann, 12s. 6d.)
That admirable half-caste aborigine, Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte, in another of his adventures in the Australian out- back, involving not only a killing and a kidnap- ping but......
Mystery Stories. By Stanley Ellin. (boardman, Lls. 6d.)...
guignol stories, of which one, 'The Specialty of the House,' much admired and much anthologised, sets pattern of highly skilled construction, surprise ending, touch of horror.......
The Wife Of The Red - Haired Man. By Bill S. Ballinger.
(Reinhardt, 12s. 6d.) Simply a tale of pursuit. A man breaks jail, shoots the husband of his former wife, and flees with her across the United States, with the cops after them.......
Cork In The Doghouse. By Macdonald Hastings. (michael...
6d.) Bellicose, battle-scarred bull-terrier bitch (caricatured by dust-cover into bull-doggery) wins heart of dear old Mr. Cork, the elderly city gent, and solves her own......
The Contessa Came Too. By John Bryan. (faber, 13s. 6d.)
The high-born of both sexes and most of the NATO nationalities romp around the Riviera di Ponente in their high-powered cars; and Canadian Colonel Sarel, whose second adventure......
Kill Once Kill Twice. By Kyle Hunt. (barker, 10s. 6d.)
Neat, probable lower-middle-class little piece about how surburban radio dealer is driven by debt into one murder and by fear into the next : enough to haunt you into paying......
New Novels
The Tin Armada. By Satherley Whitehand (Cassell, 15s.) The Black Cloud is a splendid affair, as good as Mr. Hoyle's other bland and thrilling manifesto about the new cosmology,......
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