... THE LITERARY LOUNGER. By K. JOHN. THE SIXTH HEAVEN. By L. P. Hartley. IN the unrelenting flow of current fiction-- much of it expert work-- it is very hard to retain impressions; each new novel becomes a wave obliterating the one before. At the time one may think differently, and label this or that outstanding, but the chances are that in a month or two the outstanding will be levelled ...

... DEATH IK THE THIRTEENTH DOSE. By Belton Cobb. When Detective-Inspector Cheviot Burmann set out to seek the murderer of old Mrs. Vance he was accompanied by Sergeant Ross, newly- returned to the Yard after having been invalided out of the Forces. Ross described himself as the dutiful lamb following at Cheviot's heels, but any respectable lamb would have blushed through his wool to have ...

... TRANSFORMATION SCENE. By Claude Houghton. Mutatis mutandis, the same might be said of Mr. Claude Houghton's new novel. This is a kind of psychic detective-story. Who murdered Carol? Max Arnold, the painter, who tells the story, thinks he did, for the reasons that he dreamed he had, that he was a sleepwalker, and that he had long wished to break with Carol. She had been many men's mistress, ...

... By Monica Dickens. By L. P. HARTLEY. THE title of Monica Dickens's latest novel is a slight mis nomer, for Major Oliver North was not a very happy man. He had good reason not to be, for during the Arnhem operation, though not during one of its heroic moments, he was hit by a shell, lost his leg and sustained a serious injury to his heart. Now, with the war over, he lies bedridden in his mother ...