Virility Of Florence
By Mary McCarthy , t The Stones of Florence. (Heinemann, 84s.) Two sets of people will be irritated by the pros- pect of Mary McCarthy's new book : those who feel that she......
The Tumbled House. By Winston Graham. (hodder And...
Son vindicates father's memory by libelling his libeller, in the same way that the younger Gladstones dealt with Captain Peter Wright of the Bath Club. Excellent court scenes......
It's A Crime
Cat Among the Pigeons. By Agatha Christie. (Collins, I 2s. 6d.) 'Owing to the influential con- nections at Meadowbank the murder of Miss Springer had been played down very......
Hare Sitting Up. By Michael Innes. (gollancz, 12s. 6d.)...
donnish twins, one of whom is up to his neck in secret bacteriological-warfare stuff; the donnish detective, Appleby, falsely bearded and bespectacled; and a donnishly dotty......
Stop At Nothing. By John Welcome. (faber, 15s.) Breakneck...
in which the best people chase each other in'Bentleys and Ferraris and the like from green days in County Kildare to blue nights on the Cote d'Azur, quoting Cory and Chesterton;......
Man In The Dark. By Wilfred Cook. (cresset Press, I6s.)
Commercial traveller strangles mis- tress's husband in drab Midland town and then, by forgery and good luck, steps not only into victim's bed but also into his bank account.......
The Jury Is Still Out. By Irwin D. Davidson And
Richard Gehman. (Peter Davies, 21s.) In 1957, in New York, a gang of eighteen lads be- tween the ages of fourteen and eighteen killed a fifteen-year-old cripple, member of a......
The Man Who Chose Death. By Eric Allen. (hammond, 12s.
6d.) Rather a lot of sudden deaths in Florence, where a Titian is pinched from the Uflizi. Better than average writing and atmo- sphere, and quite a pace to the......
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