CLASSIC CRIME
Sleeping Dog
by 刑事 Lochte (Penguin Modern Classics £9.99, 368pp)
(Penguin Modern Classics £9.99, 368pp)
A hard-boiled, middle-老年の gumshoe with time on his 手渡すs is 説得するd to 跡をつける 負かす／撃墜する a 行方不明の dog, 推定するd stolen. Leo Blackworth’s （弁護士の）依頼人, answering to the appropriate 指名する of Serendipity, is a stubborn 十代の少年少女, savvy beyond her years, who is 免疫の to 危険 and will not take no for an answer. Together, this ありそうもない 二人組 乗る，着手する on a chase that brings them up against a mafia-run 血-sports ゆすり where canine and human life are 平等に expendable.
As the professional, Leo is not averse to taking chances, but he is no match for his headstrong partner, who is fearless against the ruthless sleazebags who 脅す their lives.
Taking turns to tell their 味方する of the story, the narrative sparkles with sharp 交流s serving as a thin disguise for 相互の affection and 尊敬（する）・点. First publish ed in 1980 as a debut novel, Sleeping Dog passes the 実験（する） of time with 飛行機で行くing colours.
The Long 影をつくる／尾行する?
by Celia Fremlin?(Faber £9.99, 256pp)
(Faber £9.99, 256pp)
に引き続いて her husband’s death in a car 衝突，墜落, Imogen receives a telephone call 告発する／非難するing her of 殺人. That she is innocent is surely beyond 疑問, except for the question of the 延期する in telling the police that she was the wife of the dead man, a much admired if philandering classical scholar.
Imogen finds no 救済 in the company of her feckless stepson and his manipulating sister who, uninvited, move into her home. An 追加するd 複雑化 is a mentally 乱すd student who dotes on the memory of her over-attentive 助言者.
But is the professor really dead? Imogen’s 神経s begin to 割れ目 as 証拠 現れるs of her husband as a living presence.
Skilfully interweaving mystery and menace, Fremlin keeps us on tenterhooks as Imogen fights off the madness that 脅すs to （海，煙などが）飲み込む her . How she 敗北・負かすs her persecutors is a 勝利 of creative imagination.
Big Ben Strikes Eleven
by David Magarshack (British Library 罪，犯罪 Classics £9.99, 336pp)
(British Library 罪，犯罪 Classics £9.99, 336pp)
Few 涙／ほころびs are shed when Sir Robert Boniface, a world-famous 商売／仕事 大君, 国粋主義者／ファシスト党員 sympathiser and all-一連の会議、交渉／完成する 汚い piece of work, is 設立する 発射 dead in the 支援する of his car. A short 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる） of 嫌疑者，容疑者／疑うs is led by Matt Caldwell, a belligerent artist whose portrait of Boniface had been summarily 拒絶するd by the sitter.
Also in the running is a 同僚 whose wife was having an 事件／事情／状勢 with Boniface. Then there is his 甥 and 見込みのある 相続人 who had made known his 敵意 to his uncle’s nefarious 財政上の 取引.
The epitome of 推論する／理由 and ありふれた sense, Superintendent Mooney 乗る，着手するs on a painstaking 調査 that 明らかにする／漏らすs hidden 動機s for a sensational 殺人. Rarely surfacing after its first 出版（物） i n 1934, Big Ben Strikes Eleven is a 満足させるing mystery with the indefatigable Mooney 主要な us to an elusive and 予期しない 殺し屋.
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