11 APRIL 1958, Page 23

It's a Crime

°wt. Be.* Dead. By James Byrom. (Chatto. and Idu13s. 6d.) Echoes of a baccarat case of the Nineties reverberate through this quite bril- flant tale, as a journalist digs up its survivors, in ,aris and Pimlico, and with them an excitingly ua• ngerous little black market in white slaves. A

• some new voice in crime fiction.