... A Gripping Murder Story by Joseph Shearing Back Room Scientists Family Characterisation by Miss Barbara Goolden An Englishman in South America A Vivid Historical FJovcl -By Vernon Fane WHAT an extraordinarily good craftsman Mr. Joseph Shearing is, and how confidently-- and eagerly-- one opens each of his new books, each imaginative reconstruction of a crime that happened once, and of which ...

... -By Vernon Fane Philip Jordan's Day-to-Day Diary of Events in North Africa A History of the National Union of Journalists A Book of Stories by Ludwig Bemelmans, and Four New Books for Children THE blurb of JOR DAN'S TUNIS DIARY (Collins. ios. 6d.) de scribes Mr. Philip Jordan as the News Chronicle's famous war corre spondent. Unique amongst blurbs, which are not, as a rule, distinguished by ...

... Reviewed by PHILIP PAGE TEN LITTLE NIGGERS.-- I would not say that this stage version, at the St. James's, of Agatha Christie's famous thriller thrills to any great extent. The whole idea-- a homicidal maniac invites ten guests to stay with him on a small island so that he can bump them off, one by one, more or less on the lines of the nursery rhyme-- is so utterly preposterous. Another ...

... Reviewed by PHILIP PAGE TT//S TIME IT'S LOVE (Comedy).-- How that amusing Frenchman, Louis Verneuil, ever came to write a quarter of a centurv ago so dull a plav as this, and whv two clever English people have taken the trouble to translate it, I find a bit of a mystery. The translation is a more than impossible job of work, and that is why, coupled with some excellent acting the evening was ...

... -By Vernon Fane Lion Feuchtwanger 's Story of Nazi Germany Ach-ack and a Kentish Village Murder in Pre-war Austria The Ingredients of a Chinese Puzzle THE new Feuchtwanger novel evokes this author's usual atmosphere of ugly splendour and macabre Gothic intrigue. It is a melodrama of Nazi Germany before this war, and tells the story of two men who are shown as having a dubious influence over ...