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,
“... Most modern thrillers not only use this material but show a disturbing attachment to it. Gavin Lyall’s talent is for distancing his material. There are homely domestic details: ‘On the way, he stopped at a tiny village grocer’s and bought himself a rough picnic: cheese triangles, potted meat, biscuits and a couple of tins of beer.’ One ... ”
