... THE COCKEYED PARTY It. It. Wyndham Ltkw (or. \ii>li(niaiT in llloomshiirv} PROLOGUE EARLY afternoon on a June day of 1950. Outside the London School of Economics. Siesta is over. Clusters of attractive gipsies lounge on the School steps, casting provo cative or insolent glances at the crowd. Others mingle with the populace, passing to and fro with rhythmically-swaying hips. Others are flocking ...

... PETER DICKINSON, bearing in mind the fondness for moderniz ing Shakespeare, here presents Falstaff in a motoring mishap OfCENE: the courtyard oj a wayside inn. O Enter Shallow and Silence. Shallow: Come on, come on, come on; give me your hand, Sir, give me your hand. And how goes the little sports car you bought at Stamford Fair? A quick one, I'll warrant? Silence: Alas, Cousin, a dear bargain ...

... D. B. Wpidham Lewis PROMISING frantic excitement but supplying very little, the Mystery of the Man in the Iron Mask (so called because it was a black velvet one) has always seemed to us marvellously like a typical Daily Scoop scream headline H ...