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Palaces And Monasteries Of Old Russia

John Jolliffe IMPERIAL SPLENDOUR by Prince George Galitzine, with photographs by Earl Beesley and Garry Gibbons Viking £35, pp. 187 T o declare an interest, I was first dazzled......

Through The Killer's Eyes

Brian Masters THE AESTHETICS OF MURDER by Joel Black Johns Hopkins University Press, £30.50, £10.50, pp.276 I t has long been acknowledged that apparently motiveless murder......

Some Crime, Not Much Punishment

Patrick Skene Catling WE ARE ALL GUILTY by Kingsley Antis Reinhardt, £7.99, pp. 93 H ere is Unlucky Clive Redivivus. Kingsley Amis says he created Clive Rayner, 'a 17-year-old......