Us and Them
Robert Taubman, 4 September 1980
A Talent to Deceive: An Appreciation of Agatha Christie
by Robert Barnard.
Collins, 203 pp., £5.95, April 1980,0 00 216190 7 Show More
by Robert Barnard.
Collins, 203 pp., £5.95, April 1980,
Enter the Lion: A Posthumus Memoir of Mycroft Holmes
by Michael Hodel and Sean Wright.
Dent, 237 pp., £4.95, May 1980,0 460 04483 4 Show More
by Michael Hodel and Sean Wright.
Dent, 237 pp., £4.95, May 1980,
Dorothy I. Sayers: Nine Literary Studies
by Trevor Hall.
Duckworth, 132 pp., £12.50, April 1980,9780715614556 Show More
by Trevor Hall.
Duckworth, 132 pp., £12.50, April 1980,
“... 500’, which seems to mean MI5), and the hero is no sooner posted to 10 Downing Street than a grenade comes through the front door. The material is that of any hard-core thriller, and very unsympathetic it is, cold-hearted in its violence and cynical about loyalty or affection. Most modern thrillers not only use this material but show a ... ”