5 FEBRUARY 1960, Page 30

It's a Crime

The Face of the Tiger. By Ursula Curtiss. (6Yre, and. Spottiswoode, 12s. 6d.) The familiar, and welcome, Curtiss combination of everyday setting (this time a rather tatty New England country club), ingenious plot involving fear, hint of black' mail and murder, with matter-of-fact, realistic writing. Not quite so cunningly done as The Stair- way, but, that's to judge by the highest standards, in the suspense-in-the-drawing-room department you can only judge Curtiss by Curtiss.