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I SWEAR AND VOW, by Stefan Oliver. About surgeons and hospitals in Germany where, according to this novelist, surgery is closer to butchery than anywhere else on earth. Trans lated by Helen Sebba. (Pan Giant.) CLASSIC CRIMES, by William Roughead. The author was an Edinburgh lawyer and the writer of many books on criminal trials. This selection of seven famous Scottish murders has been made by his son, and begins with the famous early 19th century West Port murders.

The West Port sensation grew out of a new interest in the teaching of anatomy around that period and the lack of human raw-material on which the students could practise. Those who undertook to supply it graduated from robbing graves to getting it on the hoof, (Pan Giant.)

The Challenge, By E. V.

Timms. The Tasmanian section of the Australian saga that, in total, ran into 11 novels. The Gubbay couple, who have a prominent part in the series, appear again. (Pacific Books.)

Angelique And The King,

by Sergeanne Colon—the sequel to Angelique and, like it, it comes in the large, but scarcely family, size.

In the first novel, Angelique went from poverty to the wealthy nobility via marriage, descended into beggary and near-prostitution, reappeared at the top through another noble marriage and lucky business ventures.

In this, the third novel, she sets her sights on Versailles and the King sets his sights on Angelique. Sin, sex, romance and intrigue in the classical Louis XIV period. (Pan Major.)

The War Lover, By John (“A

Bell for Adano”, “Hiroshima”, etc.) Hersey. Major Buzz Marrow loved his Flying Fortress, loved raids over Germany, loved annihilation for annihilation’s sake. His buddy Boman loved Buzz’s English girl friend. Sin, sex, intrigue, war, and swear-words spelt with dashes, strictly in the American modern period— although the background’s England, 1943. (Pan Major.)

The Seven Dials Mystery,

by Agatha Christie. A vintage Agatha of her earliest period, pre dating Hercule Poirot and her latter day sleuths. (Great Pan.) ZSA ZSA GABOR, by herself, through Gerold Frank. Life-story of the Hungarian glamour-puss in which Hollywood talent, American millionaires and impoverished Euro

pean nobility have a share. (Pan Giant.)

Morning At Jalna, Young

Renny And The Whiteoak

BROTHERS, all by Mazo de la Roche, all episodes in the chronicle of the Whiteoak family. (Pan Giants.) JIGSAW, by Hillary Waugh. An American murder mystery that got rave notices from English book re viewers and has since been made into a British movie. (Great Pan.)

An Innocent Abroad, By

Ronald Kirkbride which, like his other novel, “Tamiko”, is about a Japanese girl—but this one the hero marries and takes on a world trip. (Great Pan.)

Bony And The Black

VIRGIN, by Arthur Upheld. Out back New South Wales and Detective Inspector Napoleon Bona parte unravelling the mystery of two dead station owners. (Great Pan.)

Sammy Anderson, Com

Mercial Traveller, By H. D.

Williamson. The title explains the theme of this novel with a typically Australian small-town background. (Pacific Books.)

The Crowded Sky, By Hank

Searls. Also as the title indicates— drama in this jet air age with an airliner and a Navy plane travelling at the speed of sound on a collision course. Sex interest as well. (Great Pan.) ACT OF MERCY, by Francis Clifford, South American revolution stuff that has now been made into a movie starring Leslie Caron and David Niven. (Great Pan.)

The Witch’S Thorn, By Ruth

Park. A mixture of old Irish and Maori in the New Zealand of the 1920’5. (Pacific Books.)

The Drums Of Mer, By Lan

L. Idriess. A highly coloured romance of primitive society in the Torres Strait Islands—with beautiful white castaways for trimming. (Pacific Books, 7/6.) THE BOYS, by John Burke. Old Bailey court room-drama about high spirited youths or vicious thugs— depending on the point of view. Has been made into a Richard Todd, Robert Morley film. (Great Pan.) (Pan Books from William Collins (Overseas) Ltd.; Pacific Books from Angus and Robertson Ltd. Prices: Great Pan, 4/-; Pan Giant, 5/6; Pan Major, 7/6; Pacific Books, 5/6, except where indicated.)