28 APRIL 1973, page 15

Crime List

Patrick Cosgrave In any random new pile of detective stories and thrillers on one's desk a new Emma Lath; en must take pride of place. It is true that Miss Lathen's latest......

Shorter Notices

Victorian Studies in Scarlet Richard D. Altick (Dent £3.25) Man's curiosity about murder was never stronger than in the Victorian age, "our great period in murder, our......

Bookend

Bookbuyer Authors and publishers have not always seen eye to eye on money. Life would be dull if they did. Some writers — like Rider Haggard, H, E. Bates or Norman Mailer — have......