2 DECEMBER 1995, page 42

A Curate's Hard-boiled Egg

Tom Hiney HARD-BOILED: AN ANTHOLOGY OF AMERICAN CRIME STORIES edited by Jack Adrian and Bill Pronzini OUP, £17.99, pp. 532 T he trouble with short crime stories is that as soon......

Recent Gardening Books

Mary Keen A bout ten years ago, the late Mark Boxer told me that the trouble with gardening books was that they were not visual enough. He prophesied that once they were......