Best Of The Paperbacks
p. 94 · Read in the full issue
Thrillers and Crime:
Vintage Murder; Swing,
Brother, Swing And Scales
OF JUSTICE are three companion who-done-its by Ngaio Marsh, with Chief Det.-Inspector Alleyn in the title role. All are reprints, all are recommended. (Fontana, 5/6 each.)
The Golden Spiders. A New
Nero Wolfe mystery by Rex Stout.
Three murders. (Fontana, 4/-).
The Avenging Saint Is,
naturally, a Leslie Charteris thriller.
As this one was written in 1930 it is now something of a historical novel. (Hodder, 4/-).
VIOLENT SECURITY is a bank raid thriller, set outside London, by new writer George Burnett. (Pan, 4/-.)
The Urgent Hangman Is
the Peter Cheyney thriller that intro duced private eye Slim Callaghan. (Pan, 4/-).
The Heartless Light, By
Gerald Green, who wrote The Lotus Eaters, is a fat thriller (450 pp.) on events surrounding a kidnapping. A study in attitudes rather than thrills. (Pan, 9/-.) ANNALISA, by Forbes Rydell.
Family mystery in Louisiana. (Four Square, 4/-.)
The Long Farewell, By
Michael Innes. Suspected murder of a Shakespearean scholar. (Four Square, 6/-.) Fiction:
Whittaker S Wife, By Harry
Bloom. Sex life among the social set of Johannesburg. (Fontana, 5/6.)
That Uncertain Feeling,
by Kingsley Amis, has been printed before under the title of Only Two Can Play, by which name it became a film featuring Peter Sellers as the librarian with sex problems. (Four Square, 5/6.)
The Dream Merchants.
More Hollywood expose stuff by Harold Robbins, author of The Carpetbaggers (which contained so many four-letter words that the Aus tralian Customs wouldn’t let it in). (Four Square, 10/-.)
The Shores Of Night, By
Robert Muller. Fleet Street journalist in a matrimonial triangle. (Four Square, 6/-).
Reason For Violence, By
Deanne Doubtfire, tells how Paulette
goes to bed with Gilbert because he threatens to let beetles crawl over her if she doesn’t. And she hates beetles.
Lust For Innocence, By The
same author, is a suspense novel in volving a child. (Both Pan, 6/- and 4/-.) ADRIFT IN SOHO. Angry young man Colin Wilson (The Outsiders ) sets his novel among the Soho set.
Most readable. (Pan, 6/-).
THE LOSER. Peter Ustinov’s ex cellent story of a Nazi who is all mixed up. (Pan, 6/-).
Tobacco Road And Geor
GIA BOY. Reprints of Erskine Caldwell’s novels. (Pan, 4/- each.) Fact:
Strange Customs Of
Courtship And Marriage, By
William J. Fielding. (Four Square, 5/6.)
The All-In-One Camera
BOOK, by W. D. Emanuel, has already gone through 53 editions.
Everything the amateur photographer wants to know. (Four Square, 5/6.)
Life Is For Living, By Dr.
Eustace Chesser, a British marriage counsellor and lecturer, surveys the main needs of physical and mental fitness with the object of showing you how to obtain a richer, fuller life. (Pan Piper, 6/-.)
Improve Your English, By
Hunter Diack, lecturer at Nottingham University, is the title of a series of three books, one each dealing with READING, WRITING and SPEAKING. They are designed to be bought separately. (Four Square, each 6/-.)
The Concept Of The Cor
PORATION, by Peter F. Drucker, is a study of General Motors, and ex plains why it has become a model for other world-wide corporations. (Mentor, 9/9).
They Always Take Their
Secrets To A Druggist.
Memoirs of American chemist shop proprietor Harry Zane, mostly humorous. (Signet, 5/6.)
SHAKESPEARE, by Ivor Brown is a revision of a work first pul lished in 1949. It details what j known of Shakespeare’s life an brings him and his work into focu: (Fontana.)
The Fall Of Crete, By Ala
Clark, deals in some detail with th successful German invasion of Cret by parachute in May, 1941. Th author is strongly critical of som senior New Zealand commanders, br he has the advantage of 20 year! hindsight, and makes little allowanc for the fact that an invasion by para troops was something new to the de fenders. There are several irritatin small erors, e.g., in his survey o events leading up to the battle h deals briefly with the earlier battl in Greece and says that the firs Allied convoy sailed to Greece oi April 7. The battle started on Apri 6, and the first elements of the Allie< force were in Greece a month befon that. In other parts he refers to somi of the New Zealand brigadiers a “brigadier-general”, a rank which di( not exist in the 2nd NZEF. He refer to Major-General Weston of th< Royal Marines as Lieutenant-General but Weston was never more than i Major-General on Crete. There an several other simple errors which in evitably lead to a doubt about th< accuracy of many other points, am leave the impression that Clark’i story is not strictly dispassionate.— NB. (Four Square, 5/6.) (Fontana and Pan are distributed b; William Collins (Overseas) Ltd. and Fou: Square, Mentor and Signet by Tudor Dis tributors Ltd., Sydney.