Out Of The West
THE MONMOUTH EPISODE. By Bryan Little. (Werner Laurie, 25s.) Tins is in many respects an excellent book. Mr. Little knows his West Country intimately, and he has combed the......
A Dirty Way To Die. By George Bagby. (macdonald, 10s.
6d.) Even run-of-the-mill American thrillers carry more conviction than Mrs. Christie and her country houses. Here, for instance, is a forthright story-teller whose Inspector......
Three Witnesses. By Rex Stout. (collins, 10s. 6d.) Obese,...
and opinionated, Nero Wolfe is the Gilbert Harding of fictional detectives. Here are three of his problems, each solved, fairly enough, by ratiocination. The come is the right......
Den - Ril Drops Tile Pilot. By George Bellairs. (gifford,...
The victim is a ferry-pilot in the North-West, as it might be Fleet- wood, and the characters are the pretty ordinary small business- men and publicans' wives of provincial......
House Of Secrets. By Sterling Noel. (andre Deutsch, 13s....
Reads like a parody of all those thrillers that begin with mistaken identity in Marseilles, and the parcel that falls into the wrong hands, The inevitable American hero who,......
It's A Crime .
DEAD MAN'S FOLLY. By Agatha Christie. (Collins, 12s. 6d.) Snip, snip, snip, and the pasteboard characters are shaped; a tug at the strings and they conform to type—or......
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