... By Horace Horsnell Ten Little Niggers (St. James's) THE best nightmares do not always inspire the best table-talk. Indeed, as related at breakfast by their still quaking dreamers, they can be notoriously tedious. So is it with critical post-mortems on stage thrillers. In action these apocryphal affairs may excite or amuse by keeping the playgoer in thrilled suspense; but, like fireworks or ...

... 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 ...