Paper Backs

Best Of The Paper Backs

Father Malachy's Miracle, By B 3

Marshall. First published in 1931 now something of a classic in whioi Benedictine monk and an Anglican r© cross ecclesiastical swords and Fas Malachy performs the miracle of spirii away the Garden of Eden dance 1 (Fontana.)

A Way Through The Wood, V

Nigel Balchin. Possibly the most ncr of the psychological novels by this wv who specialises in the stiff-uppens upper middle-class English who mr theless manage to be poor-mixed-up-H- Although now over 10 years old, making its second appearance in pae backs, still worth-while re-reading. Q tana; 5/6.)

The Chinese Love Pavilion, By I

Scott. A story that has mystery, suspee action and most of the other ingrediiil for a first-class story; plus writing ss The background is post-war Malaya; ; characters two Englishmen, Brent Saxby; and one Eurasian girl, Te Chang, a prostitute. Saxby sets hinrr up as a one-man judge and executioi of collaborators and it is Brent whor ordered to hunt down his one-time friei The task is made doubly difficult whem finds that the next intended victimr Teena Chang, with whom he has beco: infatuated. (Pan; 5/6.) Also by author, this month, and also about v fare in the Malayan jungle, THE MARK>I

The Warrior. (Pan.)

BAMBOO DOCTOR, by Stanley S. P* c lard. The author was a civilian mecb' officer in Malaya at the time of Japanese invasion and later was sent w Allied prisoners-of-war to the infarrm Burma-Thailand railway. Because of : skill, not only in medicine but in im|n visation, thousands of POW's survivi First reviewed in PIM in 1960. (Pan.) i

The Month in Crime

BEFORE MIDNIGHT, by Rex Stout, other Nero Wolfe case. (Fontana.) GIVE ME THE KNIFE, by Laurence AHA nell. About a girl who murder only to find someone else got in first. (Fontana.) RED EYE FOR THE BARON, by AnthiH Morton (who is better known as J<L Creasy). Sophisticated West End compq amongst whom there is an eccem;

illionaire, a jeweller, a beautiful female id, of course, a murderer. (Pan.)

The Shivering Mountain, By Paul

imers. International intrigue and a

iwspaper reporter-sleuth. (Fontana.)

THE MIRROR ROOM, by Christopher ndon. We reviewed it when first pub hed in 1960 and find it no more con- Ucing now than then. East and West irlin background. (Pan.)

The Case Of The Restless Redhead,

’ Erie Stanley Gardner. Saved by Perry json. (Pan.)

For Other Tastes

THE GAMESTERS, by Peter de Polnay. nnes, high living and gambling. (Pan; 6.)

The Third Pan Book Of Horror

DRIES. Selected by Herbert van Thai, in; 5/6.)

The House In The Uplands, By

ikine Caldwell. Deep fried, Southern 'le sin, (Pan.) THE GRAND DUKE AND MR. PIMM, by idsay Hardy. You can also see it as a lited Artists movie. (Pan; 5/6.) PRIVATE POTTER, by John Burke. Now MGM movie. Theme: Cyprus-like situ on. (Pan Original.)

Miss Bagshot Goes To Moscow,

Anne Telscombe. The zany adventures a 70-years-old British spinster, with ernational overtones. (Fontana.)

The Loves Of Caroline Cherie, By

cil Saint Laurent. An episode in gency England for this French femme (ale. (Pan; 5/6.)

Jesus And The World, By Rudolf

Itmann, recognised New Testament iolar. First published in German in 29. (Fontana.) GHOSTLY HOOFBEATS, by Norman Fox. estern.

SILVER-PLATED SPOON, by the Duke of idford. Even those not interested in the ided gentry will probably be enter ined by this story of the extraordinary id eccentric ancestors of the present ;ke, and even more so by the account how he turned the derelict Woburn abey into a public attraction complete ith milk bar and espresso machines, an; 5/6.) (Our copies from Wm. Collins (Over as) Ltd. All 4/- except where shown.)