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Nancy Graham, 26 year-old magazine writer and the narrator of this novel, is out for dinner with her fiancee Donald when they bump into Susa...

After so enjoying Margot Bennett’s 1952 crime novel The Widow of Bath , I plunged into her next novel, a thriller first published in 1953. I...

The blurb for this British Library Crime Classics edition of a novel first published in 1952 quotes praise from Julian Symons in his landmar...

In the year 3392, an automated grading machine decides that seven year-old Grame is fit to be no more than a "mechanical repetitive wor...

“Informed public opinion is infectious, even to governments.” (p. 149) Thursday, 30 July 1964 saw publication of two paperback “Penguin Spec...

This is a review of a comic science-fiction novel from 1968, sort of John Wyndham done as sitcom. Yet in poking fun at the mores and anxieti...

This is a beguiling mystery by Margot Bennett, first published in 1955 and recently republished in a nice new edition by the British Library...