1 MARCH 1957, Page 25

. What No Woman Knows..By Neil Bell. (Eyre and Spottiswoode,

15s.) Rather a lot of co- incidences—and a whopper to wind up with- in an otherwise admirably commonplace inquiry into seeming suicide by exhaust-pipe of middle- aged businessman. The thrills are anti-climactic, for the author k so particularly good—and untedious—at conveying the tedious process of police inquiry.