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DEATH AT Fuoirr. By Colin Willock. (Heinemann, 13s. 6d.) A

shade too technical, surely, about wild-fowling and its appro- priate artillery for the kind of stay-at-home who suffers his vicarious thrills by way of crime-stories—but readable. Murder in the marshes is solved by goose-shooting magazine-publisher tycoon who is so perceptive as to be able to look at one of his own photographers and say with certainty to himself, `Eton and Balliol,' and not hesitate for a moment (it would seem) over any of a few other schools and colleges. Improbabilities apart, though, a very promising debut, and one hopes for more of the lady- killing police-inspector with a Lock hat and two small initial Ts' to his name, who makes a brief appearance, at the death.

CHRISTOPHER PYM