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,
“... Sometimes this town remembers its past,’ says Agnes in The Secret Servant, pausing in the gun-play to quote Wordsworth’s ‘Westminster Bridge’. This thriller is about contemporary nuclear strategies and the elimination of agents and double agents. Agnes is an agent herself (from ‘Box 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 ... ”
