8 APRIL 1978, page 24

April Crime

Patrick Cosgrave I have always, myself, held to that useful distinction between the thriller and the detective story which asserts that the resolution in the latter is achieved......

Half-known

Francis King The Murderer Roy A. K. Heath (Allison & Busby £3.95) When I mentioned to a colleague that I was reading a book by a Guyanan novelist, he commented sagely `There's a......