20 OCTOBER 1939, page 26

Detectives In Gas Masks

Suicide Excepted. By Cyril Hare. (Faber. 7s. 6d.) WHAT is to become of the detective story in war-time? There is much talk of " escape " literature for black-outs, but perhaps......

Three Americans

THE three American books reviewed here illustrate strikingly in their different ways the dependence of America upon the civilisation of Europe; and at the same time the......