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Keep Death Clean

DEAiti is a ticklish subject and part of the crime- writer's craft is to invest it with acceptable tone. generally sound convention has been estab- lished and where writers......

Life Made Lifelike

Pedigree. By Georges Simenon. Translated by Robert Baldick. (Hamish Hamilton, 25s.) SIMENON is the proverbial horn of plenty dis- guised as the twentieth-century literary......