17 MARCH 1967, page 15

The Investigating Officer By Frederick L. Keefe (hamish...

NEW NOVELS A question of guilt DAVID GALLOWAY Very Like a Whale by Ferdinand Mount (Weidenfeld and Nicolson 25s) ) Waiting for Winter by John O'Hara (Hodder and Stoughton 35s)......

Unscrambling An Empire: A Critique Of British Colonial...

by W. P. Kirkman (Chatto and Windus 35s) Decline and fall DOUGLAS BROWN The essential truth about decolonising is that the retreating imperialism has no choice of heirs. Power......

Murderers All

MAURICE PRIOR This month's batch of crime novels is pretty diverse and rather more deductive-slanted than usual. A fine example of an oblique murder mystery is Lonely Heart 4122......