19 OCTOBER 1956, Page 26

SOEUR ANGLLE AND THE GHOSTS OF CHAMBORD. By Henry Catalan.

(Sheed and Ward, 9s.) Something fresh for the jaded palate is a nun-detective, even if the French and (one presumes from the publisher's imprint) faithful author has played a little unfair by having had Soeur Angele, of the Sisters of Charity. educated first in medicine, and by insisting that she is personable to look at. It is a worldly crew among which she stumbles upon murder—film actors, no less—but she has a small Spdnigh near- delinquent to advise her, and if the solution is arrived at more by intuition than deduction, the Loire scenery is agreeable, the little Sisters of Charity charming, and the French flavour pleasingly, if anonymously, preserved.