... a Bare Bodkin (Faber 8s. 6 d.), combines an amusing satire on a wartime control (he calls it the Pin Control) with a water tight plot. The Pin Control functions in a vast, cheerless house at the distant seaside and its personnel, thrown on their own resources ...

... drizzling, over cast summer months, with their sinister droning skies, better rendered. To this, the Saturday in the Kentish country house is a sunny pre liminary, or overture. Then, the reverberations of the liberation of Paris the lift of the black out the ...

... ment and bliss of the honeymoon allayed fears it is not till we meet our young couple married and settled down in a charming house in Sussex Square, Bayswater, that fishy discrepancies between Desmond's account of himself and his actual behaviour strike ...

... one of her books, running her Barton Street household under wartime conditions, bringing up her children, standing up to Zeppelin raids, listening to friends' confidences, paying country house visits, and in London constantly lunching and dining out. Her ...

... moving action and clear-cut scenes did she not give us, during the war, novels of underground movement in the occupied countries (notably Without Orders and Endure No Longer) which allied a first-rate thriller technique with a sense of the mystery latent ...