13 DECEMBER 1957, Page 29

She Died Because . . . By Kenneth Hopkins. (Macdonald,

10s. 6d.) Relentlessly funny caper, with a brace of comic-strip absent-minded profes- sors peering over their spectacles at the clues the cops had missed, and having their thighs pinched in Soho. Mr. Hopkins can write, and his jokes will convulse the Early English Text Society, but enough is as good as a feast, and enough for this reviewer is about a couple of pages.