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IE BIG SMOKE, by D'Arcy Niland, the r half of the Ruth Park-Niland, hus- I and wife writing team. Like Ruth, cy's Sydney is (to use the blurb on jacket), raw and untamed . . . with ipic violence and Dickensian squalor, seas readers who read only D'Arcy Ruth would probably be amazed to v that all but a small proportion of million Sydneysiders live in respect suburban houses and never do any j more exciting than watch TV and a joint, baked potatoes and two veg. y weekend. (Great Pan.)

Ie Fifth Pan Book Of Cross

IDS is edited by L. W. Burgess and is what it says it is—crosswords, 150 hem. (Great Pan.) IE BILLBOARD MADONNA, by Eileston or. British written about American srtising executives. Curt Miller is a iant advertising copy-writer but knocks n and kills a beautiful girl. He can't g himself to confess to his hit-and crime but uses the girl's face in a I safety campaign. With one thing and her Curt becomes a very mixed up iw—and so does the advertising world /hich he exists. (Pan Giant.) H, CARELESS LOVE! by Maurice Zolo , This is a funny on what's normally to be a serious subject: A husband's a-marital adventures. (There's a moral at the end.) (Great Pan.) ERTAIN WOMEN—seven of them, to exact, and their love lives, portrayed that master of biological urge, Erskine Iwell. (Great Pan.) GAIN THE RINGER—a 1929 vintage ler by the inventor of the modern ►dunnit, Edgar Wallace. (Great Pan.) ONALD KNOX, by Evelyn Waugh, the jraphy of a man well-known in literary ecclesiastical circles—a special sort churchman, known in England but ly in antipodean climes. Knox was a liant undergraduate at Oxford in the yon days of pre-World War I, took y Orders and became a Chaplain of ity College. He was converted to holicism and became Roman Catholic iplain at the University. He was a dern translator of the Bible as well writer of books for everyday reading uding religious, children's and even Hers. Waugh was a life-long friend the lay side, rather than on the gious. (Fontana.) iISTER AT SEA, by Rona Randall.

Doctors (2) and nurses (1), and of course love. (Fontana.) THE ONE WHO KISSES, by Lucy Walker.

This one's about Australia—and, of course, love. (Fontana.) DARK WANTON—the underworld, the Secret Service, and Peter Cheyney. Also

Velvet Johnnie And Other Stories By

the same. (Fontana.) THE 31ST OF FEBRUARY, by Julian Symons. One of the 10 best mysteries of the year, according to the "New York Times" —about a man whose wife was killed by accident although no one would believe it. (Fontana.)

THE OTHER SIDE OF THE COIN, by Pierre Boulle. Malaya during the Emer gency and an American wife of a rubber planter who thinks she can win Com munist terrorists from their wicked ways. (Fontana.) JUNGLE GIRL, by John Moore. Strictly for those who like snakes and circuses.

About a she snake-charmer who had rather less success with men. (Fontana.)

Parker Pyne Investigates, By

Agatha Christie. What might be regarded as a "sport" so far as this thriller writer is concerned, as Parker Pyne as a de ducer doesn't seem to have survived so

long as some of the other Christie sleuths. First published 1934. (Fontana.) NIGHT WITHOUT END, by Alistair Mac lean. A thrill-packed adventure during the IGY on Greenland icecap in 70 deg. below weather. (Fontana.) SUBSTITUTE DOCTOR, by Elizabeth Seifert, whose romances about doctors and nurses are now well known. This one has love in it, too. (Of course.) (Fontana.) CONQUEST IN SCOTLAND, by Berkeley Gray. A thriller master-minded by the unquenchable Norman Conquest. Dis appearing bodies, beautiful red-heads, sudden death—the lot. (Fontana.) I THANK A FOOL, by Audrey Erskine Lindop. A well-executed suspense story with a kick in the ending that has now been made into a film by MGM. Peter Finch, Susan Hayward, Diane Cilento and Cyril Cusack are in the lead parts. (Fon tana.) TAXI TO TOBRUK, by Rene Havard.

Four Frenchmen's and one German's war in the desert. The story of how the Frenchmen, isolated 500 miles from safety, captured a half-track "taxi" and an Afrika Korps captain to go with it, and finally reached their objective. (Fontana.) MURDER OF A NYMPH, by Margot Neville. An Australian whodunnit about a femme fatale who was fatale just once too often and ended with a cracked skull. (Fontana.) HEAD OF A TRAVELLER, by Nicholas Blake. The body was found in the Thames; some weeks later, its head, in a string-bag, was found hanging in a tree.

Nigel Strangeways investigates. (Fontana.) BEFORE I KISSED, by Mary Howard.

How to lose your man by being too am bitious. Big problem stuff for the weaker sex. (Fontana.)

My Love A Stranger, By Renee

Shann. All about a simple country girl who fell for the tale the artist told. (Don't say we didn't warn you.) (Fontana.) DOCTOR'S ORDERS, by Elizabeth Seifert.

All the doctors this woman writes about have problems and Dr. Ward had three: His employers, his mother and his wife.

The doctor also has patients, for those who are interested. (Fontana.) (Our copies from Wm. Collins (Over seas Ltd. Fontana, 4/-; Great Pan, 4/-; Pan Giant, 5/6; Pan Major 7/6.)