13 FEBRUARY 1959, Page 30

Third Crime Lucky. By Anthony Gilbert. (Collins, 10s. 6d.) Middle-aged,

amiable Fred and Bessie get a job looking after an old man, and the old man dies, as had others. The smart-aka lawyer Arthur Crook, as flamboyant as ever, but much more lifelike, sorts it all out, and there is a neat (rather too neat) court-of-law revelation to tie it all up. Especially good on cosy middle- class atmosphere