List of reviews

• 1. Ariel: Andre Maurois
• 5. The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club: Dorothy L. Sayers
• 6. The Mysterious Affair at Styles: Agatha Christie
• 7. Twentyfive: Beverley Nichols
• 8. William: E.H. Young
• 15. Four Frightened People: E. Arnot Robertson
• 16. The Edwardians: V. Sackville-West
• 20. Erewhon: Samuel Butler
• 23. Esther Waters: George Moore
• 37. The Pilgrim of a Smile: Norman Davey
• 57. The Black Diamond: Francis Brett Young
• 58. The Poisoned Chocolates Case: Anthony Berkeley
• 61. The Mysterious Affair at Styles: Agatha Christie
• 62. The Missing Money Lender: W. Stanley Sykes
• 65. The Man in the Dark: John Ferguson
• 73. Mr Weston's Good Wine: T.F. Powys
• 78. Trent's Last Case: E.C. Bentley
• 79. The Rasp: Philip MacDonald
• 88. The Green Lacquer Pavilion: Helen Beauclerk
• 90. The Sanfield Scandal: Richard Keverne
• 98. The Murders in Praed Street: John Rhode


• 102. Youth Rides Out: Beatrice Kean Seymour
• 106. Now East Now West: Susan Ertz
• 110. Disraeli: Andre Maurois
• 112. Children of the Earth: Ethel Mannin
• 133. Watkin's Last Expedition: F.Spencer Chapman
• 139. Flying Dutchman: Anthony Fokker
• 143. Fontamara: Ignazio Silone
• 151. The Invisible Man: H.G. Wells
• 164. Queer Street, Vol I: Edward Shanks
• 165. Queer Street, Vol II: Edward Shanks
• 169. As We Were: E.F. Benson
• 173. Ethan Frome: Edith Wharton
• 195. The City of Beautiful Nonsense E. Temple Thurston
• 198. Amateur Adventure: Kenneth Gandar Dower


• 201. The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze: William Saroyan
• 209. No 17: J. Jefferson Farjeon
• 220. An Oxford Tragedy: J.C. Masterman
• 222. Widdershins: Oliver Onions
• 245. The Brontes Went to Woolworths: Rachel Ferguson
• 247. Corduroy: Adrian Bell
• 251. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists: Robert Tressall
• 258. Wild Oats: Eric Muspratt
• 266. The Dying Alderman: Henry Wade
• 269. Canon in Residence: V.L. Whitechurch
• 278. Silver Ley: Adrian Bell
• 291. The Quest for Corvo: A.J.A. Symons


• 321. Mr Norris Changes Trains: Christopher Isherwood
• 335. Kipps: H.G.Wells
• 337. Jumping Jenny: Anthony Berkeley
• 342. Farewell Victoria: T.H. White
• 362. Time Will Knit: Fred Urquhart
• 397. The Bamboo Blonde: Dorothy B. Hughes


• 410. Artifex Intervenes: Richard Keverne
• 464. Death on the Borough Council: Josephine Bell
• 493. Delay in the Sun: Anthony Thorne


• 523. The Cases of Susan Dare: Mignon G. Eberhart
• 538. Memoirs of a British Agent: Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart
• 543. Trent's Own Case: E.C. Bentley & H. Warner Allen
• 549. High Wages: Dorothy Whipple
• 559. The Lawless Roads: Graham Greene
• 571. The Island of Dr. Moreau: H.G. Wells
• 572. Love and Mr. Lewisham: H.G. Wells
• 585. Rex v. Anne Bickerton: Sydney Fowler
• 590. Trial and Error: Anthony Berkeley


• 609. Winesburg, Ohio: Sherwood Anderson
• 615. Life Class: Ludwig Bemelmans
• 651. Cakes and Ale: Somerset Maugham
• 654. Fruit in Season: Anthony Thorne
• 662. The du Mauriers: Daphne du Maurier
• 684. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd: Agatha Christie
• 686. Murder at the Vicarage: Agatha Christie


• 726. The Astonishing History of Troy Town: Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch
• 730. Verdict of Twelve: Raymond Postgate
• 740. Carteret's Cure: Richard Keverne
• 745. Remove the Bodies: Elizabeth Ferrars
• 778. Famous Trials of Marshall Hall: Edward Marjoribanks
• 779. Heads You Lose: Christianna Brand
• 780. Seven Against Reeves: Richard Aldington
• 791. Gilbert and Sullivan: Hesketh Pearson
• 797. Clochemerle: Gabriel Chevallier
• 799. The Garden Party and Other Stories: Katherine Mansfield


• 814. And So To Murder: Carter Dickson
• 816. She Died a Lady: Carter Dickson
• 841. The Franchise Affair: Josephine Tey
• 843. Summer Half: Angela Thirkell
• 865. The Cambridge Murders: Dilwyn Rees/Glyn Daniel
• 867. The Lady in the Lake: Raymond Chandler
• 874. The Postman Always Rings Twice: James M. Cain
• 880. The Woman of Rome: Alberto Moravia
• 887. The Mysterious Mickey Finn: Elliot Paul
• 895. Zuleika Dobson: Max Beerbohm
• 897. Tragedy at Law: Cyril Hare


• 902. Serenade: James M. Cain
• 920. The 12.30 from Croydon: Freeman Wills Crofts
• 921. An Avenue of Stone: Pamela Hansford Johnson
• 943. The Yellow Room: Mary Roberts Rinehart
• 954. Tom Brown's Body: Gladys Mitchell
• 958. Loving: Henry Green
• 963. Trio: Dorothy Baker
• 967. The D.A. Calls a Turn: Erle Stanley Gardner
• 969. One Pair of Feet: Monica Dickens
• 980. The Heyday in the Blood: Geraint Goodwin
• 988. The Case of the Gilded Fly: Edmund Crispin
• 990. The Daughter of Time: Josephine Tey
• 994. Quick Service: P.G. Wodehouse


• 1004. A Summer to Decide: Pamela Hansford Johnson
• 1007. With a Bare Bodkin: Cyril Hare
• 1009. Aphrodite Means Death: John Appleby
• 1011. The Story of Ragged Robyn: Oliver Onions
• 1056. The Affairs of Flavie: Gabriel Chevallier
• 1064. That Yew Tree's Shade: Cyril Hare
• 1068. Essays and Poems: G.K. Chesterton
• 1069. The Incredulity of Father Brown: G.K. Chesterton
• 1079. The Bombard Story: Alain Bombard
• 1083. Reputation for a Song: Edward Grierson
• 1086. Hemlock and After: Angus Wilson
• 1090. The Department of Dead Ends: Roy Vickers


• 1101. A Question of Proof: Nicholas Blake
• 1102. Speak No Evil: M.G. Eberhart
• 1106. Over My Dead Body: Rex Stout
• 1107. X v. Rex: Philip MacDonald
• 1111. Payment Deferred: C.S. Forester
• 1150. The Chinese Orange Mystery: Ellery Queen
• 1160. The Egg and I: Betty MacDonald
• 1162. Suicide Excepted: Cyril Hare
• 1182. Telling of Murder: Douglas Rutherford
• 1191. Selected Short Stories: Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch
• 1193. Son of Oscar Wilde: Vyvyan Holland


• 1200. The Girl on the Via Flamina: Alfred Hayes
• 1210. The Bad Seed: William Marsh
• 1211. The Blessing: Nancy Mitford
• 1221. Maigret in Montmartre: Simenon
• 1222. Maigret's Mistake: Simenon
• 1230. The Alleys of Marakesh: Peter Mayne
• 1236. The Big Heat: William P. McGivern
• 1239. The D.A. Holds a Candle: Erle Stanley Gardner
• 1257. The World My Wilderness: Rose Macaulay
• 1271. The Happy Prisoner: Monica Dickens
• 1273. Uneasy Money: P.G. Wodehouse
• 1275. Clochemerle-Babylon: Gabriel Chevallier
• 1279. Fair Stood the Wind for France: H.E Bates
• 1286. Death at the President's Lodging: Michael Innes
• 1299. Stop Press: Michael Innes


• 1300. The Death of Grass: John Christopher
• 1304. The Long Divorce: Edmund Crispin
• 1306. The Go-Between: L.P. Hartley
• 1315. The Moving Toyshop: Edmund Crispin
• 1323. The Content Assignment: Holly Roth
• 1339. The Frenchman and the Lady: Elizabeth Cadell
• 1343. The Lonely Passion of Miss Judith Hearne: Brian Moore
• 1348. Noblesse Oblige: Edited by Nancy Mitford
• 1353. The Sleeper: Holly Roth
• 1356. The New Men: C.P. Snow
• 1357. Roman Tales: Alberto Moravia
• 1362. Maigret and the Burglar's Wife: Simenon
• 1369. Thin Ice: Compton Mackenzie
• 1370. Doctor Sally: P.G. Wodehouse
• 1384. Docken Dead: John Trench
• 1391. Patrick Butler for the Defence: John Dickson Carr
• 1393. Our Hearts were Young and Gay: Cornelia Otis Skinner and Emily Kimbrough
• 1394. The Plague and I: Betty MacDonald
• 1398. A Perfect Woman: L.P. Hartley


• 1419. My Friend Maigret: Simenon
• 1420. Five Roundabouts to Heaven: John Bingham
• 1425. The Straight and Narrow Path: Honor Tracy
• 1437. The Dud Avocado: Elaine Dundy
• 1442. Hurry on Down: John Wain
• 1444. A Certain Smile: Françoise Sagan
• 1460. Two Adolescents: Albert Moravia
• 1463. Little Boy Lost: Marghanita Laski
• 1470. The Longest Journey: E.M. Forster
• 1476. Hide My Eyes: Margery Allingham
• 1491. Pnin: Vladimir Nabakov
• 1499. Love Me Little: Amanda Vail


• 1501. The Law: Roger Vailland
• 1529. The Unspeakable Skipton: Pamela Hansford Johnson
• 1528. From a View to a Death: Anthony Powell
• 1532. Pigeon Pie: Nancy Mitford
• 1535. One Pair of Hands: Monica Dickens
• 1546. Memento Mori: Muriel Spark
• 1548. Third Party Risk: Nicolas Bentley
• 1555. The Case of the Four Friends: J.C. Masterman
• 1576. Appleby Plays Chicken: Michael Innes
• 1577. Appleby on Ararat: Michael Innes
• 1578. The Weight of the Evidence: Michael Innes
• 1581. Green for Danger: Christianna Brand
• 1590. A Love Affair in Rome: Ercole Patti
• 1594. Maigret's First Case: Simenon


• 1605. The Deadly Reaper: Clark Smith
• 1609. Or be he Dead: James Byrom
• 1610. The Doors of Sleep: Thurman Warriner
• 1611. Good Morning, Miss Dove: Frances Gray Patton
• 1620. The D.A. Draws a Candle: Erle Stanley Gardner
• 1628. Venusberg: Anthony Powell
• 1634. After the Rain: John Bowen
• 1640. Hamlet, revenge!: Michael Innes
• 1641. Old Hall, New Hall: Michael Innes
• 1642. Christmas at Candleshoe: Michael Innes
• 1648. Lucky Jim: Kingsley Amis
• 1655. At Home: William Plomer
• 1676. A High-Pitched Buzz: Roger Longrigg
• 1670. Eating People is Wrong: Malcolm Bradbury
• 1672. Within and Without: John Harvey
• 1678. Maigret and the Old Lady: Simenon
• 1680. Maigret Has Scruples: Simenon
• 1695. The Lost Childhood and Other Essays: Graham Greene
• 1697. Coming Up For Air: George Orwell


• 1702. Six Great Advocates: Lord Birkett
• 1706. What's Become of Waring: Anthony Powell
• 1708. Murder in Pastiche: Marion Mainwaring
• 1710. The Case of Torches: Clark Smith
• 1713. A Family and a Fortune: Ivy Compton-Burnett
• 1728. A Question of Upbringing: Anthony Powell
• 1731. A Shot in the Dark: David Garnett
• 1736. At the Villa Rose: A.E.W. Mason
• 1738. Hons and Rebels: Jessica Mitford
• 1742. All Fall Down: James Leo Herlihy
• 1788. Just for the Record: Stanley Price


• 1820. Red Queen White Queen: Henry Treece
• 1826. Gamesmanship: Stephen Potter
• 1833. The S-Man: Mark Caine
• 1835. The Victorian Chaise-Longue: Marghanita Laski
• 1836. Weekend in Dinlock: Clancy Sigal
• 1845. The Penguin Charles Addams
• 1850. The Taste of Fears: Margaret Miller
• 1854. The Little Man from Archangel: Georges Simenon
• 1857. Famous Trials 7 - Oscar Wilde: H.Montgomery Hyde
• 1867. This Side of Paradise: F.Scott Fitzgerald
• 1870. Two Clues: Erle Stanley Gardner
• 1880. A Touch of Stage Fright: Jocelyn Davey
• 1889. The Greer Case: David W. Peck
• 1891. The Rock Pool: Cyril Connolly


• 1928. The Fig Tree: Aubrey Menen
• 1938. Memories of a Catholic Girlhood: Mary McCarthy
• 1959. The Hammersmith Maggot: William Mole
• 1960. A Use of Riches: J.I.M. Stewart
• 1976. Don't Tell Alfred: Nancy Mitford
• 1981. Daughters of Mulberry: Roger Longrigg


• 2008. The Flaw in the Crystal: Godfrey Smith
• 2020. The Gold-Rimmed Spectacles: Giorgio Bassani
• 2024. Maigret Mystified: Simenon
• 2026: Maigret Stonewalled: Simenon
• 2028. Maigret at the Crossroads: Simenon
• 2032. Scenes from Married Life: William Cooper
• 2037. The Man Who Won the Pools: J.I.M. Stewart
• 2064. The Premier: Simenon
• 2066. The Deadly Affair/Call for the Dead: John le Carre
• 2075. Casanova's Chinese Restaurant: Anthony Powell
• 2080. Silence Observed: Michael Innes
• 2096. Dreadful Summit: Stanley Ellin


• 2109. The Man on the Rock: Francis King
• 2130. An Aspidistra in Babylon: H.E. Bates
• 2410. Henry's War: Jeremy Brooks
• 2155. The Birdcage: John Bowen
• 2157. Robinson: Muriel Spark
• 2160. Famous Trials 10: Edited by James. H. Hodge


• 2201. Hare Sitting Up: Michael Innes
• 2205. Ukridge: P.G. Wodehouse
• 2220. The Demoniacs: John Dickson Carr
• 2241. Night's Black Agent: John Bingham
• 2251. Maigret in Court: Simenon
• 2253. The Widower: Georges Simenon
• 2267. An Error of Judgement: Pamela Hansford Johnson
• 2282. Because of the Cats: Nicolas Freeling


• 2308: Cat's Cradle: Kurt Vonnegut
• 2318: The Eighth Circle: Stanley Ellin
• 2327. The Company She Keeps: Mary McCarthy
• 2371. The Fancy Dress Party: Alberto Moravia


• 2427. I'll Never Be Young Again: Daphne du Maurier
• 2475. The Foxglove Saga: Auberon Waugh


• 2533. The Last Tresilians: J.I.M. Stewart
• 2590. The Iron Staircase: Georges Simenon


• 2795. The Specialty of the House: Stanley Ellin


• 2999. Bullitt: Robert L. Pike