Intent To Kill. By Michael Bryan. (eyre And Spottiswoode,...
6d.) Skilfully characterised trio of professional killers are commissioned to dispose of South American politico being operated on, incognito, in Montreal hospital. Very fast......
The Cardinal
IN SILENCE I SPEAK. By George N. Shuster. (Gollancz, 21s.) THIS book on Cardinal Mindszenty and the Communist regime in Hungary is, as the publishers point out, highly topical.......
Twelve Horses And The Hangman's Noose. By Gladys...
Joseph, 12s. 6d.) Three murders in this well- written, sloppily conceived frolic among livery stables and a local grammar school, ornamented with unlikely rustics, but with Mrs.......
Inspector Queen's Own Case. By Ellery Queen. (gollancz,...
Less complicated and more relaxed than usual : Queen pere, in the absence of that rather tiresome know-all, Queen fi/s, retires from the New York Police Department on reaching......
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......
The China Roundabout. By Josephine Bell. (hodder And...
Maharajah's gift—a china roundabout—leads to various Hampstead murders solved, eventually, by those essentially nice characters, Dr. Wintringham and Inspector Mitchell. Mrs.......
A G • Un To Play With. By J. F. Straker. (harrap,
I Is. 6d.) Sunday shootings in Sussex, all made readably matter-of-fact by realism with which local police are treated, however odd the goings-on of the American hero imagined......
Innocent Abroad
MR. NORRIS AND I . . . By Gerald Hamilton. (Allen Wingate, 15s.) THE prison at Nice is quite the most horrible I have ever been in.' It is impossible not to be fond of Gerald......
The Tramplers. By Jason Manor. (secker And Warburg, 1 Ls.
6d.) Gangster warfare in California, with a mild-mannered young architect blundering around no man's land, bumping into a blonde with a heart, as well as a head, of gold; some......
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