It's a Crime
Sleep Long My Love. By Hi (Gollancz, 13s. 6d.) Hillary Waug Wearing . . ., published seven yea of the landmarks among twe American crime-novels—a quiet, pletely enthralling story of how t covered that a missing girl had 131 and who• had done it. This is oi same basket, if not from the vet Ilary WOO h's Last See° rs ago, is one ntieth-centurl realistic. co°. he police dir meeen omutu rodfertt y top. But it is near enough. A rather dingy Don Juan kills and cuts up a mistress who was becoming troublesome, and the police slowly track him down—but very nearly fail to bring it home. It is all recounted in the same matter-of-fact tone and with the same macabre and convincing detail as a volume in the 'Famous Trials' series, and I read and accepted every word of it.
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