15 DECEMBER 1939, page 32

Murder With Padding

Stop Press. By Michael Innes. (Gollancz. 8s. 6d.) (Gollancz. 7s. 6d.) FOR thirteen years Mrs. Christie's admirers have been waiting for her to reproduce the superlative form of......

Report On Competition No. 12

THE usual prizes were offered for a short letter on some innocuous and irrelevant topic calculated to provoke a pro- tracted correspondence of the sort that sometimes appears in......

The Spectator Competitions No. 14 It Is Believed That In

progressive nurseries complaints are heard that all existing nursery rhymes are out of date. Prizes of book tokens for £2 zs. and kr is. are offered for new nursery rhymes,......