The Times Literary Supplement No. 4079, June 5, 1981 Larkin, Philip. (Contributor)

(London: The TLS 1981). A newspaper. Special issue devoted to crime and mystery fiction. Includes, inter alia,: reviews by Julian Symons of biographies of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler; Philip Larkin on James Bond (a full-page article headed "The Batman from Blades"; ostensibly a full page review of John Gardner's 'Licence to Kill'". Also includes a review of Eric Ambler's 'The Care of Time' by Michael Gilbert; a review of Ruth Rendell's 'Put on by Cunning' by Francis Wyndham and a full page review of John Dickson Carr's 'The Door to Doom' by Kingsley Amis headed "The art of the impossible". There are other reviews by Julian Barnes and Russell Davies plus a symposium on neglected crime classics wherein distinguished crime fiction authors (including Eric Ambler, Ruth Rendell, Nicholas Freeling, John Bingham, Patricia Highsmith, Reginald Hill, Geoffrey Household, John D. Macdonald et al) .are invited to nominate an author or an individual which they feel has been underrated or unjustly neglected. There is a 2-page interview of P D James by Patricia Craig. An issue not to be missed. Paper slightly browned, folded. VG. Not to be missed. Photographs/scans available upon request.