19 JANUARY 1951, page 26

Fiction

Three Ha'pcncc to the Angel. By Charles Harris. (Phoenix House. ios. 6d.) AFTER the spate of trash which is all that seems to be published immediately before Christmas, what a......

A Batch Of Thrillers

The Simple Art of Murder. By RaymoneChandler. (Hamish Hamil- ton. los. 6d.) MR. RAYMOND CHANDLER is impressively sponsored; his dust-wrapper proclaims the superlative faith......

Music-hall Memories

The Melodies Linger On. The Story of Music-hall. By W. " WELL, we might trot round. to the Empire at about ten," Algernon Moncrieff remarked in The Importance of Being Earnest.......