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For Thriller Addicts

It is interesting to note that, these days, films are not only made out of books but that books are made out of films.

Or TV series.

Francis durbridge is supposed to be the most famous serial writer in the world and his serials have been tele vised, filmed and published in 30 different countries. His Tim Fraser Again is based on his TV series of the same name.

For those who have watched it on TV, the book provides a refresher course. For those who don’t watch TV, the book stands up on its own account as a well written thriller, the action zig zagging between England and Amsterdam and the tension being sustained to the last page.

Murder, diamond-smuggling and mysterious business with bulb catalogues and a metronome are part of the ingredients.

(Tim Frazer Again. Hodder &

Stoughton. 18/9.) * * « Osmington Mills is the pseudonym of a working journalist —female—whose extra curricula activities includes whodunnit writing. Traitor Betrayed is a complicated piece in which

Scotland Yard, Military In telligence, the Foreign Office and defecting physicists all play a part, The characterisation is well done although the author has a way of polishing off her victims that is brutal in its economy. (traitor betrayed. Geoffrey Bles- i 7/ “ - Ali . u ™d lth ?, ugh ,J he P enl{ ! m F ran cis Clifford s The Hunting Ground a^ e n 9 me r° u s, the effect is less shattering because the action takes f , ace , °? Caribbean Island of Santa Marta.

There is a sort of take-it-for granted attitude to the fact that when Brennan, a professional photographer, finds himself sole eye-witness to a plane crash, he should become involved in all sorts of international skulduggery.

The story is witten with zest and Ugh Br f nan ’s assorted ag ? ni^, ai "f t I ; ea enoug !jL . they a Pr ™ lB Wo V* d ma^e a B°°d suspense film. JT. (the hunting ground. Hodder & Stoughton. 20/-.)