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Merrily He Rolls Along

Christopher Bray THE MOTHER-IN-LAW JOKE by Martyn Harris Viking, £14.99, pp. 244 W hen Martyn Harris, one of our most reliably entertaining journalists, abandoned his interview......

Whistler In The Dark

Evelyn Jon M uch has already been written about this lawsuit but, unless a copy of the tran- script of the trial should turn up (the origi- nal was destroyed immediately......

The Good, The Bad And The Ugly

John Whitworth BLOODY MURDER by Julian Symons Papermac, £10.99, pp .296 D iscussions about The Detective Story arc fascinating. Auden, Nabokov and Borges have all had......