Gallant Gentleman
THE letters in this collection were all written home from the Crimea by a young Rifle Brigade officer who was serving in the campaign there, for most of the time as ADC to a......
The Faceless Ones. By Lindsay Hardy. (robert Hale, 9s. 6d.)
Admirably straightforward, admirably unpretentious, admirably fast-moving cold-war thriller, with a reasonably true-to-life British agent chasing the papers through both......
It's A Crime
OLD HALL, NEW HALL. By Michael Innes. (Gollancz, 12s. 6d.) Look where Lucky Jim's landed! Slap in the middle of one of those Oxford-Companion-to-English-Literature......
Haiti Hero
BLACK PEARL: The Hairdresser from Haiti. By Arthur and Elizabeth Odell Sheehan. (Harvill Press, 16s.) PIERRE TOUSSAINT, known as the `Black Pearl,' is indeed a worthy subject......
Murder In A Steamer Cabin In The Harbour Of Limassol,
and solved on a peaceful island of Aphrodite, with all the appropriate decorations in the way of figs and wine, and kisses in the white moonlight. Very well done, with likely......
A Corpse For Charybdis. By Susan Gilruth. (hodder And...
10s. 6d.) Mrs. Gilruth has a neat, smooth, even faintly witty style which deserves more credible characters than she has dreamed up for this cosy little number about a pleasure......
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